Adams v. Clinton
District Court, District of Columbia
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
2Per curiam
In these consolidated lawsuits, seventy-five residents of the District of Columbia, along with the District of Columbia itself, challenge as unconstitutional the denial of their right to elect representatives to the Congress of the United States. Plaintiffs argue that their exclusion from representation is unjust. They note that the citizens of the District pay federal taxes and defend the United States in times of war, yet are denied any vote in the Congress that levies those taxes and declares those wars. This, they continue, contravenes a central tenet of our nation’s…
Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part.
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