ACLU Letter Urging Congress to Vote Yes on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act

In this vote recommendation, the ACLU urges members of the House of Representatives to vote YES on H.R. 51, the Washington, D.C. Admission Act. The ACLU will score the vote on final passage. H.R. 51 would grant statehood to the residential areas of the current District of Columbia as the State of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. The ACLU’s legal analysis of H.R. 51 finds the bill to be a constitutional and defensible exercise of congressional power, complying with the District and Federal Enclaves Clause, the Admission Clause, and the Twenty-Third Amendment.