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From what I understand, what they are doing is, changing the size of the Capitol to only include the federal buildings for the most part, the rest of the land that is currently the Capitol would be used to form a new state.
There are a couple of issues, whether Congress has that authority to cede the land, which there is a precedent where SCOTUS did not rule on the VA portion of the land that was cede back to VA, however the bigger problem is that the only people left in the Capitol would be the President and his Family, and that would create a Constitutional Crisis come Election time, which would require an Amendment to fix. Because those in the EC cannot be someone holding office.
Back to the ceding the land, what could happen is that it could only be ceded back to Maryland, as the land that was from VA was ceded back to VA. It could be that the MA legislature would just need to consent for the land to be made into a new state. However, this process will almost certainly be tied up in court. Which the court would probably be a DC court, and then it would be something that would end up to SCOTUS if it did not got there to begin with. So this whole DC thing going to be a State could be a long process or no process, have to wait it out and see.
There are a couple of issues, whether Congress has that authority to cede the land, which there is a precedent where SCOTUS did not rule on the VA portion of the land that was cede back to VA, however the bigger problem is that the only people left in the Capitol would be the President and his Family, and that would create a Constitutional Crisis come Election time, which would require an Amendment to fix. Because those in the EC cannot be someone holding office.
Back to the ceding the land, what could happen is that it could only be ceded back to Maryland, as the land that was from VA was ceded back to VA. It could be that the MA legislature would just need to consent for the land to be made into a new state. However, this process will almost certainly be tied up in court. Which the court would probably be a DC court, and then it would be something that would end up to SCOTUS if it did not got there to begin with. So this whole DC thing going to be a State could be a long process or no process, have to wait it out and see.