D.C. Mayor Bowser: Dem-Led House, Senate Will Pass D.C. Statehood, Bring it to Biden’s Desk

[mystery-ak]

D.C. Mayor Bowser: Dem-Led House, Senate Will Pass D.C. Statehood, Bring it to Biden’s Desk

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Pam Key 22 Jan 2021

Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser told  “Just the News” on Friday that the Democratic-led Senate and House will vote in favor of statehood for the District of Columbia and send the bill to President Joe Biden’s desk, who has expressed support for D.C. statehood in the past.

Bowser said, “The nation’s capital, the federal enclave, continues to exist as the nation’s capital and everything outside of those new boundaries becomes the 51st state. Our congresswoman – we had our first successful vote on statehood in the House of Representatives last year. She reintroduced the bill. She has a record number of sponsors.”

She continued, “It is going to be reintroduced in the Senate in a couple of weeks, and we expect to have a favorable vote in the Senate as well, and then it goes to the president of the United States. We have made a big focus to President Biden to support D.C. statehood and make it part of his 100-day agenda.”

She added, “Just like you, we pay the same federal taxes as every citizen of the fifty states of the U.S. expect we do not have two senators. We literally have no one to speak for us in the Senate. We have to have full representation.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/01/22/d-c-mayor-bowser-dem-led-house-senate-will-pass-d-c-statehood-bring-it-to-bidens-desk/

[BassWrangler]

Isn't a constitutional amendment required for this?

[dfwgator]

Just remember folks, a new State means a new Flag.

And you can bet there will be a push to get rid of the Stars and Stripes for a flag that "better reflects who we are."

[Wingnut]

The bitch needs to read why the Founders decided DC was never meant to be a state. 

[mountaineer]

And you can bet there will be a push to get rid of the Stars and Stripes for a flag that "better reflects who we are."

Muriel and her pals probably would prefer something like this:

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Why should they stop there?

Why not carve it up into 5 areas and make all five into states?

They appear to have no limits with their new power.

[mystery-ak]

Isn't a constitutional amendment required for this?

That's what I thought..why let the constitution get in the way

[Hoodat]

Isn't a constitutional amendment required for this?

According to Article I, Section 8, making the District of Columbia a State would effectively remove its status as the nation's seat of government.

Congress has exclusive legislation over said District in all cases whatsoever - a power it does not have over any State.  So Washington is either a State, or it is the District designated as the seat of government.  It can't be both.  And without the seat of government, Washington becomes a slum city with no industry or economic might of any kind.

[skeeter]

According to Article I, Section 8, making the District of Columbia a State would effectively remove its status as the nation's seat of government.

Congress has exclusive legislation over said District in all cases whatsoever - a power it does not have over any State.  So Washington is either a State, or it is the District designated as the seat of government.  It can't be both.  And without the seat of government, Washington becomes a slum city with no industry or economic might of any kind.

I'm sure DC gets alot of special goodies for hosting the federal government which states aren't entitled to.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Here's Why Washington D.C. Isn't a State
BY TESSA BERENSON Time Magazine
 APRIL 15, 2016
But the lack of statehood for the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

James Madison outlined the reasoning behind this provision in Federalist 43, calling the arrangement an “indispensable necessity.” He wrote, “The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government, carries its own evidence with it… Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings interrupted with impunity; but a dependence of the members of the general government on the State comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.”

In other words, the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it. Madison envisioned that voting members of a D.C. state would be able to ‘insult’ or ‘interrupt’ the proceedings of government to get their way, simply by virtue of physical proximity to the halls of power.
https://time.com/4296175/washington-dc-statehood-history/

If DC was a state, Congress does not have exclusive jurisdiction over DC, and therefore would violate the Consitution.

[Smokin Joe]

That's what I thought..why let the constitution get in the way

Well, they haven't yet.

[Smokin Joe]

Here's Why Washington D.C. Isn't a State
BY TESSA BERENSON Time Magazine
 APRIL 15, 2016
But the lack of statehood for the capital is enshrined in the Constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the document reads, “The Congress shall have Power To …exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States.”

James Madison outlined the reasoning behind this provision in Federalist 43, calling the arrangement an “indispensable necessity.” He wrote, “The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government, carries its own evidence with it… Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings interrupted with impunity; but a dependence of the members of the general government on the State comprehending the seat of the government, for protection in the exercise of their duty, might bring on the national councils an imputation of awe or influence, equally dishonorable to the government and dissatisfactory to the other members of the Confederacy.”

In other words, the founders worried that if the capital were to be a state, the members of the government would be unduly beholden to it. Madison envisioned that voting members of a D.C. state would be able to ‘insult’ or ‘interrupt’ the proceedings of government to get their way, simply by virtue of physical proximity to the halls of power.
https://time.com/4296175/washington-dc-statehood-history/

If DC was a state, Congress does not have exclusive jurisdiction over DC, and therefore would violate the Consitution.

No matter. The Cowards at SCOTUS would fail to grant cert over a lack of "standing".

[GtHawk]

That's what I thought..why let the constitution get in the way

Democrat definition of the Constitution: An arachaic document that no longer applies to the modern world...........unless we can use it to get what we want or against Republicans.

[Smokin Joe]

Hey, they violated the Constitution with the last election.

They violated it taking the oath of office ten minutes early (It says noon, not 11:50).

They want to impeach someone who is not in office.

What's the second illegal State? (Yes, folks, there is another).

[Hoodat]

West Virginia

[mountaineer]

West Virginia

Yes.

[Smokin Joe]

West Virginia

Yep.