Talk:District of Columbia home rule

Worldrights
The little segment on Worldrights is advertising, so I'm deleting it. Natalie 22:52, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Original research
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Proposals have been made for Congress, while maintaining the current oversight over the District, to significantly restrain the degree of oversight, perhaps requiring a supermajority vote of both houses to overturn local laws passed by locally-elected officials. This proposed modification of the current system could be accomplished through simple legislation, although a constitutional amendment would preclude the changes from being withdrawn by a future Congress.

Advocates claim that this approach would largely preserve for D.C. governance the fundamental democratic principle that "just power derives from the consent of the governed", while still allowing the national legislature to exercise the last word in cases where the overriding national interest requires, as defined by a supermajority "national consensus" vote in both Houses.

Another approach would be a constitutional amendment to limit Congress's absolute power in the District to those areas directly under Federal control like the Capitol, White House, executive departments and national parks and memorials. This would allow District residents to take complete control over local issues such as taxes, schools, police, transportation, etc. while retaining Congress's power over its own institutions.

None of this information is sourced and seems completely like Original Research. If anybody has evidence of any proposed legislation or constitutional amendment to alter Congressional oversight of the District, please provide it. Best, epicAdam(talk) 18:46, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

School Segregation
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Conversely, some legal scholars contend that Congress cannot completely transfer its exclusive jurisdiction to local authorities. For example, federal judge Michael W. McConnell has written that "no act of Congress has ever authorized or required that the schools of the District of Columbia be segregated", and therefore local authorities were not permitted to take such a momentous step.

Whatever McConnell may argue about the constitution, there is no question that DC schools were segregated by the "local authorities." The local authorities may have been appointed by the president under authority of congress, but they were still the local authorities, and they certainly segregated DC schools. 152.3.146.45 (talk) 21:12, 5 February 2010 (UTC)

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DC has no-excuse mail-in voting. Ballots are mailed out automatically
See: --Timeshifter (talk) 14:40, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
 * https://www.dcboe.org/Voters/Casting-Your-Vote/Request-an-Absentee-Ballot
 * https://lims.dccouncil.gov/Legislation/B24-0507