With the historic passage of a bill granting the District state-level sovereignty despite Republican opposition, statehood advocates are planning a Senate strategy for the remaining months of this congressional session and the next, regardless of the results of the November general election.
On Friday, June 26, the House passed the Washington, D.C. Admission Act of 2019 on a 232-180 vote becoming the first chamber of Congress embracing District statehood.
The legislation would admit the non-federal enclaves of the District as the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, named after famed city resident abolitionist Frederick Douglass, to the union.
D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine joined Bowser's assessment of the District's statehood aspiration.
With this ill-conceived move for D.C. statehood, Democrats will allow the new Washington, Douglass Commonwealth to have a position of superiority over the federal government in contravention of the original intent of the founders of this country."
