NRO’s Editors have it right about the absurd attempt to provide a House member for DC:
Congress is on the verge of granting the District of Columbia statehood on the cheap: This week, lawmakers in both chambers are debating a scheme to give the District a permanent seat in the House of Representatives. The bill in question violates the plain meaning of the Constitution and should go no further…
…Because efforts to make D.C. a full-fledged state have failed, the city’s political backers have resorted to incremental steps. Much like Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam, the District currently sends a delegate to Congress. The rules governing these posts have changed over the years, but in general delegates have been allowed to vote in committee but not on the floor of the House.
That’s because the Constitution forbids non-states from enjoying this privilege. The senators and congressmen who think otherwise should take a refresher course on Article I, Section 2 and the Fourteenth Amendment: “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not … be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.” Moreover: “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States.”
Democrats are attempting to secure GOP backing for this unconstitutional power-grab by dangling an extra – presumptively GOP – seat in Utah for our side. We must not be party to this – if the Democrats wish to ram this thing through, then let them do so – the inevitable court challenge will swiftly end in the Supreme Court striking down the measure.
Our constitution is under grave threat while Democrats hold the White House and Congress – having no understanding of what law is, Democrats are unreliable (to put it mildly) guardians of our laws. To Democrats, what is right is whatever is fashionable at the moment – if the hip, rich people are in favor of a thing, then it should be done, goes Democrat “thinking” on such matters. Children need to be kept from harming themselves, and Democrats in charge of laws are like children in charge of machine guns.
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