Washington has proven itself again unworthy of statehood
OPINION:
For decades, Washington, D.C., has clamored to become a state — complete with all the power and privileges reserved for states in our federal system.
Yet once again, the District of Columbia has demonstrated conclusively that it is unworthy of statehood in a nation of laws. It cannot even assemble juries or carry out the most basic functions of a criminal court.
It has long been a running joke among journalists, government lawyers and political hacks who live in Washington about all the ways to wheedle out of jury duty. These people who spend all their days claiming to be pure as the driven snow suddenly claim in open court they are incapable of being fair or unbiased — just to get out of jury duty.
Because if you are a lying government journalist hack living in D.C., your time is so much more valuable than someone else’s. These people are as much poison to D.C.’s jury system as they are to our political process.
Not only should the District be denied statehood, but its residents have also once again shown themselves unworthy of the most basic citizenship rights.
i think of it as a city of cockroaches should something happen they would just scatter in all directions
As long as Congress has a say, DC will never ever become a state. The only thing it could become is a part of MD. I dont care on this side of the bridge and hell, DC only has 600,000 citizens anyways. DC started the gentrification decades ago to remove the trash and they went to PG country and places in northern va