Letters to the Editor Thursday, May 6 | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Statehood for D.C. is unconstitutional Regarding legislation shrinking Washington, D.C., to a handful of federal buildings and creating a 51st state from the remaining area, Democrats are using an unconstitutional scheme to rig congressional elections and gain two additional U.S. senators from a constituency which voted 92% for Biden. Granting statehood violates the U.S. Constitution’s Article IV, Section 3, which says that any new state created from the territory of an existing state requires that state’s permission to come into existence. Since D.C. was created from Maryland, a change in its status also requires Maryland’s permission, which hasn’t happened.