Garland wrote the opinion that crushed D.C.’s hope of joining America as first-class citizens. Relying on the condition that D.C. citizens were not residents of a “state,” we were then automatically denied the right to be represented in the U.S. House and Senate. As I said in a previous column, this was a classic illustration of voter suppression.
I discussed that case yesterday in my broader review of Judge Garland’s election law decisions.