Dems to grant statehood to DC and Puerto Rico

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Micawber

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Republicans will never get to play senate hardball destruction of rules and norms again.

Republican court stacking will backfire.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/24/republicans-supreme-court-gambit-may-backfire-heres-how/%3foutputType=amp
 
The bill would require a binding referendum to be held in Puerto Rico asking whether the territory wants to be admitted as a state. In the event of a yes vote, the president would be asked to submit legislation to Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
 
If DC became a state, the Republicans should start a national referendum to move the capitol somewhere else. Right now DC is a sort of "neutral ground." That was the intent. As a state, having nothing but the capitol of the country there is inherently unfair to the other 50 states. So, let them all make a decision on where the new US capitol will be.
That would turn the Democrat's move into a disaster for Democrats as the government is moved out of DC leaving it just a broken, rundown, slum of a failed city like Detroit or Baltimore.

Puerto Rico won't agree to becoming a state and you can't force it on them.
 
Earl said:
The bill would require a binding referendum to be held in Puerto Rico asking whether the territory wants to be admitted as a state. In the event of a yes vote, the president would be asked to submit legislation to Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
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So? That'd be like the 5th time or something that's happened and every time it has failed.
 
Earl said:
The bill would require a binding referendum to be held in Puerto Rico asking whether the territory wants to be admitted as a state. In the event of a yes vote, the president would be asked to submit legislation to Congress to admit Puerto Rico as a state.
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And i just dont see Trump doing this.
 
Earl said:
Dems can’t grant statehood to anyone.
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They can. The process is not clearly defined, but all agree a territory has to have an election that shows they desire it. Then Congress can grant it. Yes, congress, not Trump, not Mosco0w Mitch. Puerto Rico voted for it before .
 
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