Corrupt Dem-Controlled House Approves Statehood For DC

Washington DC is an overwhelmingly Democrat city. If DC becomes a state then the Dems are guaranteed to have three more corrupt members of congress. This should be another warning sign to rational Americans. If the Left take power in November they will attempt to make fundamental changes to our political system and the rule of law. All to obtain indefinite political power. The Democrat Party must be stopped in November. GOP2020! Trump2020!

If Democrats want to give DC statehood, then it should abide by a few requirements:
→ No sanctuary city status
→ No defunding of police
→ No autonomous zones

Democrats just voted against all of these.

— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) June 26, 2020

Here are my full remarks from the House Floor today when offering fair changes to the Democrats' power-grab D.C. Statehood bill. Among other things, the changes:
• Disallow sanctuary city status
• Protect 2nd Amendment Rights
• Fund law enforcement
• Ban autonomous zones pic.twitter.com/mEoXLseB6S

— Congressman Fred Keller (@RepFredKeller) June 26, 2020

House approves statehood for DC in 232-180 vote

By The Hill, June 26, 2020

The House on Friday approved landmark legislation granting statehood to Washington, D.C., in a 232-180 vote.

The vote was historic, marking the first time either chamber has passed legislation to elevate the District to the 51st state — and empower its residents with long-sought voting representation within the halls of Congress.

Calls for Washington, D.C., to gain statehood have gained steam amid the national calls for racial justice that have followed the police killing of George Floyd last month.

The issue is highly partisan, and Friday’s outcome reflected it. Every Democrat except one, Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), voted in favor of the proposal, which was sponsored by D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), while every Republican opposed it.

The vote is also largely symbolic, since Senate Republicans oppose D.C. statehood — and are certain to ignore Norton’s bill —  while President Trump has promised to veto the proposal if it somehow makes it as far as his desk.

But just months before November’s elections, Democrats are hoping to highlight their legislative priorities for voters to see. And Floyd’s death in the custody of Minneapolis police on May 25 — which unloosed a flood of pressure on Congress to tackle racism across broad facets of American culture — has given new life to a host of years-old proposals designed, at least in part, to empower African Americans and other minorities.

For supporters, granting statehood to D.C. is another extension of that message — an effort to enfranchise voters in a city that’s boasted a majority-minority population for decades.

“People in the District of Columbia pay taxes, fight our wars, risk their lives for our democracy. And yet … they have no vote in the House or the Senate about whether we go to war, and how those taxes are exacted and how this is all played, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in the Capitol, a few hours before the vote. “We’re at a state of compromise, and we think it’s very long overdue.”

Under the legislation, D.C. would be granted one voting representative in the House and two in the Senate. Under current law, Norton is the District’s lone delegate, with voting powers in committees but not on the House floor. Washington has no senators.

GOP lawmakers have blasted the legislation as a Democratic power grab, noting the lopsided partisan leanings of the District’s residents. The critics also contend that D.C. statehood is unconstitutional, arguing that the nation’s founders established the city as a neutral zone to govern outside the influence of state politics.

“My friends on the other side of the aisle may gasp and protest and outrage at the suggestion that what this is all about is an attempt to get two more Democratic senators. But that’s what this is really all about,” Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.) said on the floor. “The Constitution clearly establishes a federation of sovereign states, [and] the representation here in Washington, D.C., comes from those states, the federation of those states.

“This city, this district is a unique entity.”

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felix1999

3 years ago

Gee I wonder why…

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felix1999

3 years ago

If the rule of law matters and that is a big IF –

225 Years Ago Washington, DC, Was Founded: Here’s Why It Will Never Become the 51st State
Michael Sabo / July 13, 2015
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Legislative proposals to make D.C. a state violate the Constitution in at least two ways.

Article I, Section 8 grants Congress the right to “exercise exclusive Legislation” over the “District” that is “the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

Congress cannot simply change the “Seat of the Government” into a state or delegate its power over the District to the government of a new state.

It took a constitutional amendment to give D.C. residents the ability to vote for president because they are not a state and Congress could not make them a state.

Ratified in 1961, the 23rd Amendment recognizes Congress’s authority to oversee the manner in which the District appoints electors to the Electoral College.

Congress cannot single-handedly eliminate the power this amendment grants only to Congress.

Article I would need to be amended, and the 23rd Amendment would need to be repealed for legislative efforts to be constitutional.

In Adams v. Clinton (2000), the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals found that legislative efforts to allow for voting representation in Congress were unconstitutional.

The three judge panel made it clear that the Constitution would need to be amended in order for such changes to take place within the law.

Congress itself recognized this in 1977 with a constitutional amendment to grant D.C. representation—it failed to gain the approval of the states.

Constitutional questions aside, proponents pushing for D.C. statehood overlook the fact that D.C. residents are already well-represented.

The Founders reasoned that the whole Congress would represent the interests of the residents of the District of Columbia.

According to Justice Joseph Story, those who lived in the District “would receive with thankfulness such a blessing, since their own importance would be thereby increased, their interests subserved, and their rights be under the immediate protection of the representatives of the whole.”

This remains true today, especially in light of the fact that federal spending often benefits D.C. residents more than those living in the states, whose residents usually receive far less in federal funding per capita than D.C. residents.

In fact, seven of the 10 wealthiest counties in America surround Washington, D.C.

The interests of the residents of the District are already highly promoted, even perhaps at the expense of the rest of the country.

Furthermore, D.C. residents are represented by a second body, the Council of the District of Columbia.

With the passage of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in 1973, Congress ceded a portion of its authority to govern local affairs to a city council.

The council is made up of 13 members and a mayor—each of which is an elected position.

Though the campaign to make the District of Columbia a state and grant it full congressional voting will lumber on, supporters should come to terms with the constitutional and practical impediments outlined above.

If proponents of D.C. statehood want to live in a state and not a district, they have some options that are very close by.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2015/07/13/225-years-ago-today-washington-d-c-was-founded-heres-why-it-will-never-become-the-51st-state/

If this goes to the Supreme Court it is anyone’s guess how they will come down on that. The U.S.S.C. now LEGISLATES instead of INTERPRETING existing law. The intention of the founders doesn’t seem to matter.

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volksnut

3 years ago

Reply to  felix1999

Intention of the Founders has’nt mattered for a long time –

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Laddyboy

3 years ago

The DemocRAT National Communist Party in the Washington District of Corruption wants to become a state? NO PROBLEM!!! DISBAND these GULLIBLE ZOMBIES. As Virginia did many years ago — allow Maryland to RETAKE the land it LOANED to the FLEDGLING Nation. FORCE EACH
CON-gressional “representative” and the true Congressional Representatives to live and work IN THEIR RESPECTIVE DOMICILE STATES. They should only gather together 30 days a year to conduct governmental business. Eliminate the “salaries and forever paid retirement” of every POLITICIAN. They, according to early governmental established rules, MUST maintain their OWN financial incomes!!!!

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2 parrots and a dog

3 years ago

DC is the Peoples’ city and can not become a state. Maryland can try to take back the land they gave to DC as Virginia did. That’s it.

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