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"Supporters say that residents of Washington, nearly half of whom are Black, deserve the same representation as other Americans. Residents pay federal taxes, register for selective service and fight in the military, but they don’t have a full voice in Congress and local leadership can be overruled by the federal government."

That is easily solved...

By retro-cession of the Metro-DC (residence/business area of DC) back to the originating donor state it came from, which is Maryland. Those complaining ‘disenfranchised’ will have their dream for representation/participation as full citizens of the state of Maryland! PRESTO!

Congress has NO authority to transform by vote, ANY part of the existing DC into a state... ZERO! The ONLY authority congress has is to vote to cede Metro-DC back to Maryland if the business/residential population want representation.

Lopping a part of DC off and claiming statehood is complete NONSENSE and ruse. The only interest bt democrats for doing so is political and for power! Typical Dem ploy. They can’t win on argument and ideas at the ballot box, so they rig/game the system to take/steal power.

Another “solution” is to get rid of ALL the current states and instead make the existing counties into individual states.

We will then have over 3000 states and 6000 senators (most will be Republican).

By retro-cession of the Metro-DC (residence/business area of DC) back to the originating donor state it came from, which is Maryland. Those complaining ‘disenfranchised’ will have their dream for representation/participation as full citizens of the state of Maryland! PRESTO!

This is the only fair solution. DC is a very small place. It just does not measure to statehood. Returning it to Maryland has a precedent. Alexandria was a part of original DC, was returned to Virginia 1846. Why not return the rest of DC to Maryland?

I would be alright with it if we could lop off NOVA, everything inside of the Beltway, and Baltimore into this new state. Thus giving conservatives back Virginia and making Maryland a swing state.