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Article: District Trying a New Tactic to Win Voting Rights
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- The Washington Post
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- June 28, 1998
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To be a citizen of the United States and a resident of the
District is to know what it is like to clap with one hand,
politically speaking. Unique on the U.S. mainland, the city has no
vote in Congress and seems unlikely to get one soon, say frustrated
advocates of change.
Yet after years of protests that went nowhere and legal
battles that ended in disarray, the D.C. government's top lawyer is
set to launch a novel voting rights challenge this week, arguing
that denying District residents representation in the Senate and
House of Representatives violates the equal protection guarantees of
the U.S. Constitution.
Corporation Counsel John M. Ferren, a former D.C. appeals
court judge, ...