In other words, Nikki Haley is wrong, as is anyone else who treats secession and nullification as legitimate features of the American constitutional order. Greg Abbott is also wrong. The United States is not a compact...
Showing posts with label secession. Show all posts
Showing posts with label secession. Show all posts
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Opinion | Nikki Haley Has Got Secession All Wrong - The New York Times
The United States was, as Lincoln declared in an echo of Webster, a government of the people, by the people and for the people. The Union was forever. And no state or states, on their own, could decide otherwise.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Texans flock to social media to demand the state 'secede' after losing at Supreme Court - Raw Story
"All the people who ain't from here talking it's 'Time for Texas' to do whatever have no clue what they're talking about," he said. "Either we are a Constitutional Republic or we aren't. Abbott violated federal law and the Constitution. S-ck it. (also, Texas can't secede, so please, stfu)."
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Tuesday, June 21, 2022
Opinion | Texas’s new secessionist platform exposes a big GOP scam - The Washington Post
The new platform, which thousands of GOP activists in Texas agreed to at the state party convention over the weekend, is a veritable piƱata bursting with far-right extremist fantasies. It states that Texas retains the right to secede from the United States and urges the Texas legislature to reaffirm this...
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Marsha Blackburn Brought Neo-Confederate Secessionist To Deliver Prayer To Congress
I wasn't terribly surprised when we reported a few weeks ago that Mississippi Senate candidate Roy Moore is tied to the 'League of the South', the pro-Southern secession/slavery apologism group that wants to lead the South in a second rebellion against the federal government in order to found a 'white Christian republic.' But I confess I was a bit surprised that Rep. Marsha Blackburn, who is currently the leading Republican candidate to succeed Sen. Bob Corker, does too. ....
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/marsha-blackburn-brought-neo-confederate-secessionist-to-deliver-prayer-to-congress
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/marsha-blackburn-brought-neo-confederate-secessionist-to-deliver-prayer-to-congress
Saturday, January 28, 2017
After Trump's election one in 3 Californians want their state to exit the US (Business Insider)
The election of Republican businessman Donald Trump as president of the United States has some Californians dreaming - of their own country.
One in every three California residents supports the most populous U.S. state's peaceful withdrawal from the union, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, many of them Democrats strongly opposed to Trump's ascension to the country's highest office. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/after-trumps-election-one-in-3-californians-want-their-state-to-exit-the-us-2017-1
One in every three California residents supports the most populous U.S. state's peaceful withdrawal from the union, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, many of them Democrats strongly opposed to Trump's ascension to the country's highest office. ...
http://www.businessinsider.com/after-trumps-election-one-in-3-californians-want-their-state-to-exit-the-us-2017-1
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