Below The Beltway

When we last left the legislative efforts to give the District of Columbia a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives, the bill was essentially deadlocked in the House after successful efforts in the Senate to add amendments that would have effectively repealed most of the the most egregious aspects of the city’s [...]

It’s not looking like the indefinite hold that was put on the D.C. Vote Bill earlier this week will be lifted anytime soon:
D.C. vote supporters said yesterday that they are targeting more than 60 conservative congressional Democrats in hopes of securing enough support to bring the voting rights legislation to the House floor without fear [...]

It looks like the gun control amendment that the Senate added is turning into a problem for the bill to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress:
It looks like voters in the District of Columbia will have to wait another week – and possibly a lot longer – to claim official representation in [...]

The battle over the D.C. Vote bill will soon turn to the fate of the amendment that gutted most of the District’s draconian gun laws:
Supporters of the D.C. vote bill expressed optimism yesterday that the legislation would be stripped of an amendment that would turn the nation’s capital into one of the easiest places in [...]

Displaying the same contempt for the rule of law previously displayed by The Washington Post, the editors of The Virginian-Pilot urge us to just ignore that pesky Constitution:
The constitutional issues surrounding D.C. statehood are – whatever. I honestly couldn’t care less. It’s all technical nonsense written to apply to a tiny company town, not to [...]