How Congress Can End DC Lawfare -- And One-Party Federal Bias

The Constitution empowers Congress to create and govern such a district; it doesn’t actually require that district to exist. 

What’s now DC could be ceded back to Maryland, where it came from in the first place. Since Maryland is already a blue state, this wouldn’t affect its political makeup much.

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But it would change political trials significantly.

Ed Morrissey

We should really give more thought to decentralizing the federal government. Congress could stay in DC, but the executive-branch departments should get relocated, if for no other reason than to break up the grift around DC. But really, the solution is to severely curtail agency law or eliminate it altogether, and return those authorities and jurisdictions back to the states. 

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