WaPo has Her Own Private Copy of the Constitution

The Washington Post needs take time to actually read the Constitution of the United States.

WASHINGTONIANS probably could live with Republicans’ sabotaging their latest chance at congressional representation; that’s nothing new. More galling are those Republicans too gutless to admit their true position.

So how did the republican derail the plan to give DC a congressional vote?  The republicans proposed that the District ban on handguns be lifted.

WASHINGTON – Utah’s efforts to get a fourth congressional seat were waylaid Thursday when Republican critics pulled a procedural move to make the debate about gun rights instead of voting rights.
    The legislation is primarily designed to give the nearly 600,000 residents of the District of Columbia their first full-voting member of Congress and is paired with Republican-dominated Utah to balance a likely Democratic district member.
    Momentum of the bill was halted, though, when critics of the legislation tried to send it back to committee with instructions that it be amended to get rid of the district’s long-standing ban on handguns.

The citizens of the District of Columbia have no constiitution right to congressional representation.   Amendment XIV, Section 2:

Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.

The District is not a state.   No representation.  On the other hand, the residents of the district are People of the United States:   Amendment II:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The WaPo demands that residents of the District of Columbia be given a right they do not have, representation in Congress, yet be denied their constitutional right to keep and bear arms.   The WaPo invents the right of the ballot while denying the right of the bullet.