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Originally Posted by Jas_lov
Won't DC statehood be challenged in the courts and go up to the Supreme Court? They can just strike down anything they don't like and there's nothing Roberts can do.
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The text of the 23rd Amendment does not forbid it.
The spirit of the 23rd Amendment does.
So a lot depends on how committed Roberts, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and New Justice X are to textualism, and how much they are committed to GOP-always-wins-ism.
Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor are textualists who will also like the result, so I see them allowing it.
And Alito will vote for the GOP.