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6 hours ago WASHINGTON (AP) Call the nation's capital home, and for some 200 years you have paid taxes and gone to war for your country but you didn't get a vote in Congress. Residents of the District of Columbia have chafed over their second-class status, and for nearly a decade many have ...
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Hugh Hewitt: Trashing the Constitution: A Representative for D.C.
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The Democratic Congress is about to pass a law that bestows a voting Congressman on the District of Columbia . Many believe this is a blatantly unconstitutional jam down, but wonder who has standing to bring a challenge. It seems to me that any state that does not want its power diluted in the Congress has the standing to immediately challenge the law, and hopefully one will do so. The smart governor will retain Chapman University Law School Dean John Eastman to prepare the challenge and file it immediately upon passage.
Hugh Hewitt: Trashing the Constitution: A Representative for D.C.
Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog —
The Democratic Congress is about to pass a law that bestows a voting Congressman on the District of Columbia . Many believe this is a blatantly unconstitutional jam down, but wonder who has standing to bring a challenge. It seems to me that any state that does not want its power diluted in the Congress has the standing to immediately challenge the law, and hopefully one will do so. The smart governor will retain Chapman University Law School Dean John Eastman to prepare the challenge and file it immediately upon passage.
Democrats push to add voting House seat for DC
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... Now that they control both elective branches of government, Democrats have quietly pushed through one of their long-held goals, a voting seat for DC in the House of Representatives. In order to gain Republican support, they have drafted a bill that would also add another voting seat for Utah to maintain the partisan balance. However, as ...
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