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.
Some do it way more often than others. A recent evaluation by the Pulitzer Prize-winning Politifact shows that the facts do tend to have liberal bias. The website looked at top politicians and 2016 presidential candidates to analyze which ones have told the most false statements since 2007. The siteâs editor Angie Drobnic Holan wrote an Op-Ed in the New York Times about the results of their fact-checking campaign. See the politicians who lie the most in the gallery.