The inability of the citizens of the District of Columbia to participate ... become of the Twenty-third Amendment? Many district-statehood and district–voting-rights proponents generally seek ...

and its quick addition to the Constitution was expected amid a wave of progressive amendments that from 1960 to 1971 granted the District of Columbia voting rights in presidential elections ...

The Twenty-third Amendment gave the District the ... Statehood is now the clear preference of District of Columbia voting-rights advocates, but the proposal has never excited much support in ...

The Government Administration and Elections Committee heard testimony during a lengthy public hearing Friday on, among other ...

summary of Justice Scalia’s opinion for a 5-member majority in District of Columbia v. Heller, invalidating D.C.’s handgun ban on Second Amendment grounds: 1. The Second Amendment protects an ...

The Supreme Court has spent the 16 years since District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) defining the rights protected by the Second Amendment: the individual nature of the right to keep and bear arms ...

The Voting Rights ... drawing district lines primarily on the basis of race, when a separate line of Supreme Court jurisprudence (beginning with Shaw v. Reno, 1993) establishes that using race to draw ...