12/08/2019
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"There is no doubt that people tried to conscript constitutional arguments in the service of opposition to other people's equality."
"This is the ridiculousness you get into when you try to draw a Federal city into a teacup."
"Union and liberty, this was the cry of Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans in the 19th century. It is the cry of the people of Washington, DC, today who want to join the Union on the basis of equal ci..."
"Very quickly, Ms. Mayor, what is the name of the new state? Mayor Bowser. Washington, DC, Douglass Commonwealth."