Twenty DC Citizens
Lawsuit

THE CASE for FULL DEMOCRACY and EQUALITY 

 

George LaRoche w/plaque George S. LaRoche,
Our hero, is dead. His fight, our fight, lives on!

Obituary

Memorials

Announcement
A memorial service on Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 10 AM at St. Francis DeSales Catholic Church, 2021 Rhode Island Ave., NE, Washington, D.C.

-Mal Wiseman Photo

We're correcting 200 years of wrongs perpetrated by US Congress against the 550,000 US Citizens who call District of Columbia home. We've taken our case to the United States courts for relief. We're suing for full voter representation, equal treatment, protection from Congress, and the right to choose our own democratic, republican form of government. All other citizens in the States take these rights for granted.

Background

For two centuries now, Congress has exercised remarkable control over the citizens of District of Columbia.  While the Constitution grants Congress extensive powers over the district in which it placed the "seat" of the Federal government, the unfortunate result of Congress' use of these powers is that the citizens of the District are deprived of many fundamental rights of citizenship. Such rights are taken for granted by everyone else in the United States.

 

On February 28, 2001, Plaintiffs in Adams v. Bush (formerly known as Adams v. Clinton; the name changed when the Presidency changed hands) filed a motion asking the three-judge District Court to rehear the case on grounds that the Court didn't address Adams' actual claims...More

DC Citizens' Documents Read the records: District Court   and Supreme Court Our paper trail to justice. 

Essay on DC's Status
, as fresh today as year 1930.

Suggested Reading List

Other DC Democracy Web Sites:
Stand Up! for Democracy in DC Coalition
DC Vote
DC Statehood Green Party
DC Public Library/Washingtoniana Div.
Progressive Review by Sam Smith
The Last Colony - the movie

 


Contact Us Email a Plaintiff: Larry Gray, Malcolm Wiseman
 
 
 

 

 

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