Jamie Raskin actually said...

"Under Article IV of the Constitution, we have the power to admit new states."

"Take the word of the late Senator Ted Kennedy, who dismissed what he called the statehood fallacy."

"But there's a national political logic for it, too, because the Senate has become the principal obstacle to social progress across a whole range of issues."

"Take the word of the former Delegate from D.C., my colleague Eleanor Holmes Norton's predecessor, who had opposed statehood and recognized the constitutional problem."