This is an issue, if they get Biden and the Senate they will immediately pass this to give themselves 2 more Senators. In hindsight I’m surprised they didn’t try it in 2009.
They don’t need Biden. House & Senate.
Eisenhower signed the statehood bills, AK, HI.
I don’t understand it
I think this Senate would pass a DC Statehood bill in a heartbeat.
I don’t think it requires a signature by the President. The language is “New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but 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”.
Just as the President does not sign proposed Amendments, which are a joint project of the Congress and the States, it does not appear that admitting a State is an act of legislation.
I DO think a DC statehood would require the consent of Maryland, but I have no doubt that it would be forthcoming.
Were this to happen (which I now think is quite likely), Chicago, Detroit and Portland OR would certainly follow. I doubt that California would consent to lose SF or LA, and I’m certain NY would never consent to NYC Statehood. However, Illinois, Michigan and Oregon might well be pleased to be rid of their Leftist cesspools.