Constitutional Law

A curious day in Congress

The Senate sets out to give DC voters the ability to elect a voting member to the House of Reps, which is blatantly unconstitutional (the Constitution refers to House members in terms of being residents of a State, which DC is not), and compensating the GOP by adding one member from Utah (which, depending on how it is done, is probably unconstitutional as well.

Along the way the Senate adds an amendment repealing most of the DC gun laws. At least that's constitutional.

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).