New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
He also, in a way, represents what's wrong with Washington. That's not because of Holder's infamous role in the Marc Rich pardon. That episode--which Holder will certainly be asked about during confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to begin Thursday--was a case of Washington pay-to-play.
Yet it has taken until now for this simmering affair to boil over in Washington, DC. And, as so often, the ensuing scandal risks focusing on the wrong issues. On Capitol Hill, much of the talk has been of the close links that Kenneth Lay, Enron's chairman, had with George Bush and other Texas Republicans. The press has been burrowing into how often Mr Lay and other Enron bosses called administration officials to beg fruitlessly for help.