Constitutional Law Not One of Sen. Hatch’s Better Subjects
What’s going on here is obvious. The Democrats have been pushing this idea of DC statehood for years, decades now. They’re so obsessed with it because the state would elect two Democrat Senators, who would tip the balance in their favor rather reliably because DC is inhabited by 1) Black people and 2) bureaucrats. The first group is 95% Democrats, and the second group is even more likely to vote D, if that’s possible. Whether the Constitution allows this or not is irrelevant. All they need is for the Supreme court to simply misread, or reinterpret, the language so that it means what they want it to. Hatch is obviously trying to protect the Republican party by suggesting a compromise, which violates the Constitution only once, not twice. The problem is that it also shreds logic, by only misinterpreting the Constitution once, and then in the next part properly interpreting it.
