With President Donald Trump ’s deployment of National Guard troops to Washington, D.C. , last week, calls for the district to become a state have ratcheted up.

“The president’s abuses are evidence of the urgent need for D.C. statehood so that more than 700,000 D.C. residents can finally have the full rights and privileges afforded to other Americans, including control of their own local resources and policies,” Washington’s (thankfully) non-voting delegate, Eleanor Holmes Norton, said.

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