NO to any of this garbage!
The ancient dead white patriarchy decided the district wouldn’t get representation. It’s an outmoded way of thinking from hundreds of years ago. — liberal justification coming up. Count on it.
Ridiculous. The seat of our national government should not be wedded to a single state and be expected to fairly represent all states. (Even if Wash DC doesn’t care for fairly representing the country, it would be worse if made a state.)
We don’t need two more lunatic senators from DC. I’d be more in favor of declaring DC a seditious territory and setting up an American-style Nuremberg tribunal.
I would be good with returning the land to Virginia and Maryland and having our capitol rotate among the 50 states every congress.
ABSOLUTELY NO!
So two more Dem senators, poof, just like that. Shove it, EC!
I’ll take “DOA in the Senate” for $1,000 Alex.
I’ll take “DOA in the Senate” for $1,000 Alex.
Let’s see if we can get 38 state legislatures to go along!
Norton introduces this Bill at the start of every session.
I'm a little fuzzy on the Delegate's Constitutional ability to introduce a bill. This nutcase is not a Member of Congress, merely a Delegate from the District of Columbia. And this particular action can only be accomplished by a Constitutional Amendment. That must be introduced in due form by a Member of Congress.
Great idea. I wonder why those dimbulb founders of ours never considered it? They were so scatterbrained.
Wouldn’t the 23rd Amendment to the Constitution have to be repealed?
As I understand it, the whole point of the Federal Government being located in a District controlled by Congress instead of a state is to prevent the Federal government being hindered by a hostile state government—much as what we are seeing with New York’s new Attorney General declaring that her first priority is to go after the President and his family.
Congress has for political reasons allowed the District to become more or less self governing, but the Constitution says that Congress has the last word.
If the District were to be a state, any Republican would be at the mercy of a hostile “state” government. In the election of 2016, President Trump got 11,500 votes to Hillary’s 260,000.
D.C. is full of federal property. Its a district to allow lawmakers freedom from state laws. Imagine if D.C. became California east! Every senator would have to put up with California law instead of federal laws on federal property. imagine the state allowing its citizens to practice harassing lawmakers mercilessly 24/7 while inside state boundaries. D.C. can never be a state because it would quickly become a place lawmakers would have no control of. not to mention there isn’t enough tax paying base to protect congress. - D.C. state police? ROTFLMAO
It’s a District, not a state. In fact, it resides in Maryland if I remember correctly. So, if they want to stop being DC, they can get absorbed back where they came from.
Just what the nation needs. /s
Is increasing their power the only thing Democrats want to do ?
Retrocede the excess land back to Maryland with the exception of the federal district. Maryland is left lost and the added lunatics won’t impair the native stupidity.
“Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has introduced a bill to make the District the 51st state. “
Ok. But the capital of the nation then gets moved somewhere else!