So is this related to the takeover of DC and what is true and what is not true? Maybe some lawyer folk can chime in. Below is AI generated from a Brave search so truckload of salt
Organic Act 1871
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the entire District of Columbia. This legislation consolidated the previously separate municipalities of Washington, Georgetown, and Washington County into a single municipal government, creating a unified government for the federal district. The Act was signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on February 21, 1871.
The new government consisted of an appointed governor and an 11-member council, a locally elected 22-member assembly, and a board of public works charged with modernizing the city. The Act also established the District of Columbia as a body corporate for municipal purposes, granting it the powers of a municipal corporation not inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution and federal laws. The Seal of the District of Columbia features the date 1871, recognizing the year the District's government was incorporated.
Although the Act created a unified government, Congress repealed this territorial government in 1874, replacing it with an appointed three-member Board of Commissioners, leading to direct rule by Congress until the passage of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act in 1973. The Act did not establish a new city; it specified that the portion of the District within the present limits of the city of Washington would continue to be known as the city of Washington, a definition still used in DC law today.
The Act has been the basis of various conspiracy theories, particularly from the sovereign citizen movement, which falsely claims it transformed the United States into a business corporation. These claims stem from a misunderstanding of the term "municipal corporation" used in the Act, which refers to any legally authorized group acting as a single entity, a common designation for cities and counties. These conspiracy theories were later adopted by QAnon supporters to falsely claim that the Twentieth Amendment was invalid and that former President Donald Trump would be sworn in as the 19th president of the "original United States" on March 4, 2021. There is no evidence in the law's text that the United States government was transformed into a corporation.