Anonymous wrote:Change the constitution, change the number of states, change citizenship laws.....Jesus, what will dems NOT change in order to try for a quick and cheap power grab? Win an election according to the rules in the books, clowns.

States have been added 37 times. Amendments have been added 27 times. Clown.

Anonymous wrote:Anybody who wants to live in a state has the freedom to move to any state in the country.

There is no justifiable reason for why D.C. should be made a state. Such a move provides no benefit or value to the nation as a whole.

Just the value of citizens being represented in Congress.

I'm just fine with DC not being a state. Also fine with the low building height. #keepDCWeird.

-From here.

Anonymous wrote:Change the constitution, change the number of states, change citizenship laws.....Jesus, what will dems NOT change in order to try for a quick and cheap power grab? Win an election according to the rules in the books, clowns.

Yeah, cheap power grabs, like blocking a supreme court justice from getting a vote, not allowing witnesses in an impeachment trial, promising (and failing) to make the democratically elected president a “one-term president”, record numbers of fillibusters, priding yourself in being a “grim reaper” and refusing to bring over 400 house bills to a vote, ushering in unqualified “acting” government officials, and shutting down the government over a wall that still hasn’t been built. Is that what you mean???

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Anonymous wrote:The constitution refers to a federal city, aka DC. If they want to be a state, give it back to Maryland.

Neither DC nor MD want that.

Then it remains a federal city. Last time I checked, Virginia took back their contribution in the 1800s, aka Arlington and Alexandria.

This.

OP, all your questions are already answered in this huge statehood thread: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/829083.page

A statehood bill was passed by the House but not taken up by the Senate, so it would need to be re-introduced in the next session. Here's the bill that the House passed:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/51

D.C.'s pathway to statehood would take the same path as our most recent admissions Hawaii and Alaska ... a bill passed by Congress and signed by the President. But unlike their failed efforts to deny statehood to Hawaii and Alaska, the Republican Party will likely succeed in denying statehood to D.C.

If the Democratic Party maintains control of the House the bill will be re-introduced, then the Republican Party will prevent the bill from clearing the Senate either by preventing its introduction (if they maintain control of the Senate) or filibustering it (if they lose control of the Senate).

More if and then's ...

... if a statehood bill does pass both House and Senate, then it's off to the White House for the president's signature (if Biden) or veto (if Trump).
... if the bill is signed into law, then members of the Republican Party will craft a lawsuit claiming the law is unconstitutional.
... if the Republican Party maintains control of the Supreme Court, then the Court will find the D.C. statehood law unconstitutional.

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Anonymous wrote:This has nothing really to do with Repubs. If that were true, Obama would have made it a State when he had the majorities. There is zero appetite outside of DC for this issue.

Obama didn’t want to burn all bridges with the GOP.

Now the gloves are off.

Oh fabulous. Attitudes like this make me so hopeful for our country

Anybody who wants to live in a state has the freedom to move to any state in the country.

There is no justifiable reason for why D.C. should be made a state. Such a move provides no benefit or value to the nation as a whole.

Change the constitution, change the number of states, change citizenship laws.....Jesus, what will dems NOT change in order to try for a quick and cheap power grab? Win an election according to the rules in the books, clowns.

Anonymous wrote:Totally serious here: if you promised people the U.S. flag would not change, there would be much more support. People outside of DC don't think of statehood in terms of senators, they think of it in terms of a star on the flag. They are used to the nice round number of 50 states, the flag looks good the way it is, etc.

Some of this. Some of we have “50” states and a whole lot of “people live in DC?”

And a whole lot of politics. Let it go and focus on local government. Even people with representation know that their mayor and city govt affected their lives way more than their rep and senators.

I used to support calm, measured government, but the Republicans have destroyed that. If the Democrats take the Presidency and Senate, they should absolutely pack the court and add Columbia and Puerto Rico as states.

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Anonymous wrote:Totally serious here: if you promised people the U.S. flag would not change, there would be much more support. People outside of DC don't think of statehood in terms of senators, they think of it in terms of a star on the flag. They are used to the nice round number of 50 states, the flag looks good the way it is, etc.

I buy this.

Then add Puerto Rico and we’d have 52. Back to round numbers ...

Anonymous wrote:Totally serious here: if you promised people the U.S. flag would not change, there would be much more support. People outside of DC don't think of statehood in terms of senators, they think of it in terms of a star on the flag. They are used to the nice round number of 50 states, the flag looks good the way it is, etc.

I buy this.

Totally serious here: if you promised people the U.S. flag would not change, there would be much more support. People outside of DC don't think of statehood in terms of senators, they think of it in terms of a star on the flag. They are used to the nice round number of 50 states, the flag looks good the way it is, etc.