The ACLU analysis adds to, and reinforces, the 2014 Congressional Research Service testimony and testimony from former Bush administration U.S. Assistant Attorney General Viet Dinh that #DCstatehood is constitutional.
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An extensive constitutional analysis by the @ACLU, the nation’s foremost expert on the constitution, has found that our #DCstatehood bill (HR 51) “is a valid and defensible exercise of congressional authority.”https://norton.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/norton-says-aclu-analysis-finding-dc-statehood-bill-constitutional …
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The ACLU analysis is flawed in the same way that the CRS analysis is flawed and Prof. Dinh's analysis was flawed. They all overlook existing state law which HR51 needs to satisfy Art IV admission. Argument here in Castanon et al: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/3bd476_4a76c085b0f745d6bfdb87c8bb98ab59.pdf …
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Is your "nations foremost expert on the Constitution named Marx, by any chance?...
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The right to life is also valid and defensible but that doesn’t stop those with authority from abusing, degrading or eliminating it from existence.
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