U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Legal Policy, Report to the Attorney General: The Question of Statehood for the District of Columbia (1987). Significant Cases Phillips v.

The D.C. Council unanimously approved Mayor Muriel Bowser’s newly proposed legislation to extend youth curfews during the ...

Inside the complicated compromise that created the District of Columbia and the City of Washington-which are kind of the same ...

As a result, the District of Columbia Federal Immigration Compliance Act would eliminate sanctuary city laws in the District of Columbia and bar Washington, D.C., from implementing any policy that ...

A federal lawsuit challenges the District of Columbia’s practice of sending police officers rather than mental health providers to respond to mental health emergencies. The American Civil Liberties ...

Washington, D.C., and the victims of the violent, pro-Trump insurrection attempt on Jan. 6 lost an opportunity for recompense ...

Is the District of Columbia in or part of ‘the South’? I get in the argument all the time. I believe that it is mostly due to its history and architecture.

The House passed legislation on Thursday that requires the District of Columbia to comply with all federal immigration laws, the first step to codifying a piece of President Donald Trump’s wider ...

The District of Columbia City Council’s Hostility to Capitalism and Wal-Mart as an ‘economic Death Wish’ By Mark J. Perry. July 01, 2013 ...

JSTOR, The Origins of the District of Columbia Flag, accessed 2 May 2023 Lead Stories, Fact Check: Video Does NOT Prove CNN Promoted Baseless 'Empire Of The City' Conspiracy , May 1, 2023 ...

President Obama won the District of Columbia, perhaps the nation’s most reliable Democratic stronghold, and voters amended the Washington City Charter to disqualify council members and mayors ...

In 1992, the District of Columbia’s City Council enacted (with Congress’s approval) the Free Flow of Information Act, D.C. Code §§ 16-4701 et seq. (Under the District’s Home Rule Act, the Council may ...