[Innovative]

I hope there is enough opposition so they don’t have a chance.

[Rapscallion]

DC Statehood is perennial loser. It should fail again. DC has a very corrrupt political class. Its government is corrupt.

[Rurudyne]

Return the rest of D.C. to Virginia. Maryland has its bit.

Then move the seat of government to Alaska above the Arctic circle.

[goldstategop]

DOA in the Senate. Like Republicans would happily give the Democrats two new US Senate seats in perpetuity? Dream on.

[Jim Noble]

"no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

It seems to me that since Congress is the government of DC, that an organic act creating this "state" would arise from Congress petitioning itself.

Allowing this would be as unwise as allowing Congress to award itself 3 electoral votes in 1960.

[flamberge]

Not this S%^$ again!

Rust never sleeps.

[alloysteel]

The District of Columbia only makes a decent sized COUNTY, and is far from being a reasonably sized state.

Now, if some enterprising politician wants to widen the circle a little bit, and take the surrounding collar counties in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia, then include THAT area, they might have the nucleus of a decent sized state. But DC alone?

Unh-unh.

Most pf the rest of Virginia would be HAPPY to be rid of that part of the state that borders on the Potomac, and return to their cherished ways of patrician independence from the DC monstrosity,

[Lurkinanloomin]

No to DC statehood, No to Puerto Rican statehood.

[FLT-bird]

Denied.

[Gay State Conservative]

Would statehood have to be approved in the same way a Constitutional Amendment is approved? I suppose I could look it up but I'm lazy.If the process is the same I absolutely can't see 38 states saying “yes”.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think a much better idea would be for the federal government to use eminent domain of the entire district. Then they could bulldoze the slums, totally rebuild the decrepit infrastructure, and build a commercial district that would be only leased to businesses.

Other than VIP and embassy vehicles, most traffic would be by public transport. A back route for delivery trucks would be out of the way.

Its land area is only 61 square miles.

[shanover]

Everything besides Federal property needs to just be split up between Maryland and Virginia. It’s tough to split up a sh*thole but they own it.

[Bubba_Leroy]

Keep the area immediately surrounding the White House, the Capitol, and the mall as DC and give the rest back to Virginia or Maryland. The only resident still living in DC will be the President.

Problem solved.

[hanamizu]

I realize that the Constitution is considered by the elites to be an inconvenient obstacle to really good ideas, but it seems to me that it stands pretty firmly in the way of Congress granting the District statehood.

First, the Constitution itself establishes the District, so abandoning it should require an amendment to repeal the relevant language. Plans to cede the District, except for gov’t buildings back to MD who by all accounts doesn’t want it (the VA part was ceded back much earlier) runs afoul of the 23rd Amendment which gives the District 3 Presidential Electoral Votes.

How backers of District statehood can imagine that these problems are either not there or can be ignored, I can’t imagine. Democrats, if they sincerely want statehood for the District need to introduce an Amendment to the Constitution that allows it and go through the rather difficult process of having it ratified by 38 states. Until then, they should just shut up.

[joe fonebone]

Never happen... it’s illegal... The district of Columbia was created so the capital of the USA would not be located in any state...