re: #22 subsailor68

I posted this earlier, but wanted to re-post, as I’d really like to know what you all think about this.

The Unconstitutional Compromise

Latest George Will column. He covers the move by members in the House and Senate to “view” the District of Columbia as a “state”, with full voting rights. This opens the door to adding two senators (from DC), and as DC votes overwhelmingly Democrat, the bottom line would be two additional Democrat(ic) senators.

He notes that this is part of a deal with Utah to give it a fourth House seat, which appears to be a “bribe” to the two Utah Republican senators.

It seems to me that, if what Mr. Will writes is a) accurate and b) comes to fruition, that conservatives, or Republicans, may have lost the Senate forever - or at least make it a Herculean task to take it back.

Small problem

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state

- US Constitution.

Unless they want to amend the constitution there is only one way for DC to get voting senators, all them to become a state. Which then that nasty old constitution gets in the way again

New states may be admitted by the Congress into this union; but no new states shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state; nor any state be formed by the junction of two or more states, or parts of states, without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as of the Congress.

DC clearly being formed at the juncture of two other states.