Supreme Court Turns Away Appeal by DC Residents to Give Them Voting Member in Congress – IOTW Report

Supreme Court Turns Away Appeal by DC Residents to Give Them Voting Member in Congress

Conservative Brief:

The Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal by Washington, D.C., residents seeking a voting member in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The nation’s highest court on Monday affirmed a lower court ruling that said District of Columbia residents are not entitled to voting representation in the House.

Residents had asked the high court to hear the issue. The court’s four-sentence order cited a case from 2000 in which the justices said the same thing.

“Residents of the District of Columbia are the only adult American citizens subject to federal income taxes who lack voting representation in Congress, except for felons in some States,” lawyers for the residents wrote in legal papers.

Earlier this year, the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives voted 216-208 to pass a bill that would grant statehood to Washington, D.C. more

4 Comments on Supreme Court Turns Away Appeal by DC Residents to Give Them Voting Member in Congress

  1. “Residents of the District of Columbia are the only adult American citizens subject to federal income taxes who lack voting representation in Congress…”

    Wait..what…is this writer suggesting that the rest of us do have representation in Congress?

    Because if that’s the case, and I’ve lived in 7 different Congressional districts since I could vote, 2 of which were solid R, my issues like the massive fairy dust spending, billions on welfare & social programs to baby machines and the teacher’s unions destroying generations of young adults have been completely ignored.

    ComFUCKINGpletely.

    In fact when was the last time you even saw a fucking budget? Now it’s a giant CR with billions here for this boondoggle and billions there for that boondoggle. Really, what’s the point of Congress anyway, they’re absolutely worthless…oh wait, those Jim Jordan tweets are the bomb, huh?

    So Fuck you DC.

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  2. The Founding Fathers did not want the capital to have residents. They were concerned that it would be like London and Paris, where the capital would be filled with a population of governmental workers who would warp the relationship between the people and the government. One can look at parts of Maryland and Northern Virginia and see they were right to be concerned.

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  3. If DC wants to be a State then the government organizations need to be split up and spread throughout the country. Also DC is no longer the capital of America the incoming new President can choose to make their state the capital while they are POTUS. Why should the other 50 states be taxed and ruled over just one state they are opening a can of worms they don’t realize that will cost them billions in revenues.

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  4. Cool. Just give them the Virginia solution: return the land to Maryland, which, glory be, is all ready a Demoncrap $hithole. Ta-da! Instant representation without the warping of the House and Senate by creating a “new” state.

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