District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.

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• holding \[t]he repeal of laws is as much a legislative function as their enactment\
• holding \[t]he repeal of laws is as much a legislative function as their enactment\
• finding that the word “exclusive” in the District Clause was used to “eliminate any possibility” that Congress’s power over the District had “to be concurrent with that of the ceding states”
• noting that “there is no constitutional barrier to the delegation by Congress to the District of Columbia of full legislative power,” subject to constitutional limits and Congress’s power to revoke the authority granted
• involving 1872 and 1873 acts of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia which, among other things, prohibited racial discrimination by restaurant keepers and hotel proprietors
• involving 1872 and 1873 acts of the Legislative Assembly of the District of Columbia which, among other things, prohibited racial discrimination by restaurant keepers and hotel proprietors

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