This would require an amendment to the Constitution. Not going to happen.
This comes up every 20 years or so, especially when the Democrats fear losing.
Democrats are becoming looney tunes of US history.
DEMOCRATS ARE LIKE CHILDREN.....BAD SEED CHILDREN!
You mean it isn’t Washington, “dirty cops” already?
Douglas is a name mostly associated with white males. I have never met a colored person named Doug.
Resist pandering democrats at it again....
The Dem- Communist Party has done this show before .
Its Corp propaganda firms need new nonsense to peddle .
The mob is in charge of the House. Pandering is the currency of the realm. Return most of DC to Maryland and leave a small district to be administered by the federal government.
The Dems want two more senators. Next Puerto Rican statehood.
Senate Republicans should sponsor a bill to return all but the Federal Mall area, all the inhabited parts of DC back to Maryland.
Who the Hell wants to live a farm with a ditzy wife and Arnold the Pig?
Sexist Democrats!
They should name it “Tubman-Parks”. Harriet Tubman (”... the most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad.”) and Rosa Parks (of “back of the bus” fame).
Plus, with all of Washington DC’s green spaces, “Parks” should get “Brownie Points” from the “Greenies”!
Should be named The State of Disfunction.
They’ll get rid of the “Washington” in due time, and rename it Barryton, after Marion Barry.
Read the Constitution first. The Federal District was created precisely so the federal government would NOT be under the jurisdiction of any state. That should be clear for all who have a functioning brain, except democrats of course.
I think the opposite should happen.
1. Simply declare all of Washington D.C. as a federal district within the state of Maryland, giving all permanent residents (not elected federal officials) voting rights as citizens of Maryland. The state of Maryland would get one representative district added to its delegation in the House of Representatives. No new Senators, for Washington D.C.
2. Federalize the police of Washington D.C. under the U.S. Marshals office with Congress determining and providing the budget for same. Establish a local prosecutors office local courts under the direct administration of the state of Maryland specifically for the district of D.C. Establish that Maryland state law applies to all matters in the district not superseded by federal administration and/or authority.
3. Place K-12 education in the District under the Maryland State Department of Education, with permanent residents of D.C. subject to taxes established by the State of Maryland for that purpose as Maryland chooses.
4. Place the administration of all public space and infrastructure of the entire district of D.C. (streets and public utilities as well), and all regulations as to the use of all public space - traffic regulation as well - under the Department of the Interior, where ever not superseded by an occupying federal unit.
5. Provide for the election of local representatives to a council for D.C. under the state of Maryland, just to consider and vote on the Maryland budget for the district, for those services the state of Maryland would be responsible for - local prosecutor, local courts, schools.
6. Provide for the allocation and collection of property and sales taxes by a unified unit representing the Department of the Interior and the State of Maryland, as derived from their respective budgets for services they provide or administer in the district.
There would be no “mayor” of D.C. as none would be needed. The Marshals Office would take care of all policing, the Interior Department would manage all public space and infrastructure, and Maryland state would directly run D.C. K-12 schools, a local court and a local prosecutor, as well as make all laws and regulations applicable to the Maryland residents of the district, where not superseded by federal law or regulation.
No extra senators and no “Mayor” of D.C. dividing policing authority between themselves and the federal government.
Reduce the size of the district and only allow representatives to live in the district.
No Statehood.
Virtue signaling to the forever unequal, totally ignorant black citizenry