To **** With the Constitution Part 2

[ImWithStupid]

It seems that the specific language in the Constitution, decisions by Federal Court of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States don't mean anything to the Democrats when they aren't limiting gun rights or advocating killing babies...

For all of its many ambiguities, on the matter of whether the residents of the District of Columbia can vote in the House of Representatives, the United States Constitution is crystal clear: no. In 2000 the United States District Court for the District of Columbia affirmed this truth, writing: "The Constitution does not contemplate that the District may serve as a state for purposes of the apportionment of congressional representatives." The Supreme Court later affirmed that decision.

Despite the clarity of the law, Senate leaders have scheduled a vote today on S. 160, which would create two new seats in the House of Representatives and give one of them to the District of Columbia. The new fig leaf the left is using to push this blatantly unconstitutional measure is the argument that Art.1 sec. 8's grant to Congress to exercise "exclusive Legislation" over the District, gives them the power to grant the District a seat in the House.

Other good reading on the issue...

The District of Columbia: A Federal City

D.C. Representation: How Congress Promotes the Interests of the District of Columbia

Voting Representation for the District of Columbia: Violating the Framers' Vision and Constitutional Commands

 

[Old Salt]

Hopefully someone will file suit as soon as the bill is passed and signed (and it will be [iMO]).

Where's the other seat going? Puerto Rico?

 

[ImWithStupid]

Hopefully someone will file suit as soon as the bill is passed and signed (and it will be [iMO]).
Where's the other seat going? Puerto Rico?

I think so.

 

[Old Salt]

So they're creating two new seats in Congress. One for the District and one for a territory. Are they forgetting about Guam? Or maybe there aren't enough Democrats there. I guess the Philippines missed out. Maybe it's not too late for Panama.

 

[ImWithStupid]

So they're creating two new seats in Congress. One for the District and one for a territory. Are they forgetting about Guam? Or maybe there aren't enough Democrats there. I guess the Philippines missed out. Maybe it's not too late for Panama.

US Virgin Islands, US Samoa, etc...