Dems' Unconstitutional Plot to Invent New Congressmen by Mac Johnson

By posting Congressman Mike Pence's response to our criticism of his appalling support in favor of a vote in the House of Representatives for the District of Columbia, HUMAN EVENTS in no way meant to imply that we were supportive of the vote he had cast. We are totally opposed to it. Here's more conservative condemnation of Pence's action.

Right now, in the guise of a civil rights issue, the new Congress is attempting one of the most brazenly unconstitutional power grabs in our nation’s history. The move aims to create a new class of congressman and simply add the first of these to the 435 existing members of the United States House of Representatives.

This design will dilute the legitimate representation of the 50 states and create a dangerous precedent that, if allowed to stand, will make it legal for the federal government to alter the constitutionally defined makeup of the Congress itself with nothing more than a simple law, bypassing the required constitutional amendment process, which requires a two-thirds supermajority in Congress followed by the approval of three-fourths of the individual dtates.

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