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American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
On January 4, 2021 Mayor Muriel Bowser submitted written requests for limited District of Columbia National Guard (DCNG) assistance for January 5–6, specifying crowd management and traffic/control rol...
The term “Born in America” has been used in two separate contexts in 2025 reporting: a Democratic-sponsored Born in the USA Act (Senate S.646 / House H.R.3368 and related House cosponsor materials) th...
The Speaker of the House does not have command or direct legal authority over the District of Columbia National Guard; under current federal law and practice the D.C. Guard reports to the President th...
President Donald Trump ordered the reinstallation of the Confederate statue of General Albert Pike in Washington, D.C., which had been torn down during the 2020 racial-justice protests; federal agenci...
The Washington, D.C., Admission Act (commonly called S. 51 in the Senate) was reintroduced in the 119th Congress in January 2025 and seeks to admit most of the District of Columbia as the State of Was...
Albert Pike’s racial and political views have drawn sustained criticism from historians and civil-rights commentators who portray him as a Confederate leader, a white supremacist and, according to som...
Since January 6, 2021, the practical lines of who can authorize the District of Columbia National Guard have been tightened inside the Pentagon and subjected to vigorous congressional debate: the Defe...
Bayard Rustin engineered the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, a gathering of about 250,000 people that became a defining moment of the civil‑rights era . He also planned earlier direct‑a...
Control of the D.C. National Guard is unusual: unlike state guards, it reports through the federal chain—ultimately the President—though control has been delegated to the Secretary of Defense and then...
Congressional statehood for Washington, D.C. would, if enacted as legislation admitting a state, provide the new state with , while the remaining federal district would retain control over core federa...