Yes, there's a push to give part of NoVa back to D.C.

What's happening: This week, Florida resident and former Trump DOJ official Chad Mizelle penned a Fox News op-ed, pushing President Trump to sign an executive order that would force the Supreme Court to decide whether Arlington and Alexandria "properly belong" to the District, Axios' Cuneyt Dil reports.

• Meanwhile, Georgia congressman Rich McCormick introduced a "Make D.C. Square Again" bill Thursday that would also move Arlington and Alexandria into D.C.
• Both non-Virginians now argue that the mid-19th-century Retrocession Act, which gave the NoVa localities back to Virginia, was unconstitutional.

Between the lines: The Republican push to reverse the retrocession is largely a counterattack to try to blow up the congressional map Democrats just redrew 10-1 in their favor.

• But it's unlikely to find much support in Arlington and Alexandria, where residents likely aren't eager to lose congressional representation and face higher tax rates, the Washington Post notes.

Yes, but: If those localities did move back into D.C., the District would get an airport, strategic control of the Potomac, and double the number of Cheesecake Factories, Axios D.C. notes.

Flashback: Virginia gave up 31 square miles of NoVa in 1790 (what was then just Alexandria) to help create the nation's capital.

• In 1846, driven by fear that D.C. would (and did) abolish the slave trade within its boundaries, Alexandrians lobbied to return to Virginia and won.
• That was separate, of course, from when 39 counties in the northwest part of Virginia voted to create West Virginia in 1863.
• Those moves are also different from the dozens in Virginia's earliest history, which included carving up Va. to create Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and parts of North Carolina and Maryland.

Thought bubble: Virginia's been messed with plenty. But if some part of NoVa must go, let them have Fairfax.