Sean Spicer in DC: You Must Now Pass A Military Checkpoint and Show ID to GET OUT of the City.
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We need to go back to the history and law books, lads. (Don’t need Q for this part) This from the Heritage Foundation. In the aftermath of the American Revolution, Madison originally wrote about the need for a site where lawmakers from throughout the Republic could assemble, free of so-called insults to the "public authority.”
Eventually, the framers agreed there needed to be an actual sovereign territory where the federal part of the system could operate, free of the influences of any particular state. (The U.S. Constitution, Article I, Section 8, Clause 17)
The District was made permanent in 1800 with Maryland and Virginia carving out the ”ten miles square" on either side of the Potomac River.
According to the author Lee A. Casey, (who no doubt charges in 10 minute increments for his “valuable time” as a partner at Baker Hostetler ) in 1846, Virginia “retroceded” Old Town Alexandria and Arlington County portions of the district, and “constitutionality of this act has never been determined.”
A Virginia taxpayer challenged the action. Tax rates were then more favorable in the District. His suit (Phillips v. Payne ((1875)) was dismissed for “lack of standing.” (Sound familiar?)
The Court, according to Casey, called the plaintiff’s suit an attempt to "vicariously raise a question.” Neither Virginia nor the Feds "desire[d] to make” such a controversy.
There's more, (history, blah, blah, blah). But curious now, because of the National Guard’s presence, what key distinctions applicable to this situation there are between the laws of the District and that of the states? Qs: