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Originally posted by LHeym500:
Yes, Texas has no more rights as a state than any other state.

hahahahahaha i just can't

Laugh all you each. That is the law under the Constitution. Your statement is a foolish statement.

You do realize that Texas being able to leave the Union was settled by the Civil War and subsequently by this case;

Texas v. White

https://tile.loc.gov/storage-s...4700/usrep074700.pdf

Texas did not have standing bc Texas as a state cannot tell the Federal Government how to use power given to the Federal Government by the Constitution.

Texas can no more force this issue, than Maine. Ever hear of the Supremacy Clause?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/o...22pdf/22-58_i425.pdf

You have no authority for your dogma.

Texas cannot be allowed to defy the Constitution anymore than the states of Mississippi and Alabama in segregation. Alabama tried your position recently with its unconstitutional, racial gerrymandering. It folded.

Texas cannot defy the Constitution anymore than President Trump and his ilk sought to defy the Common on Jan 6 and the Big Lie. You are using the same logic.

Go read up on the Nullification Crisis. You lost before you even started playing.

I would be starved and improvised as a President, an Attorney General, or an Asst. Attorney General that covered Texas, or a Federal Judge before I let Texas, or any state, defy the Supreme Court snd Constitution.

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Originally posted by bluefish:

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Originally posted by Jefffive:
The "immigration crisis" is a sham:

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In a closed-door meeting, Mitch McConnell confirmed that Trump told Republicans in Congress not to pass immigration reform because he wants to run on the issue.
“We don’t want to do anything to undermine him,” McConnell said.

You don't allow a crisis to continue unaddressed to bolster a political campaign and get to call yourself a loyal American.

I remember when BOTH Parties put the good of the Country above politics in a crisis.

Yup, millions of military aged men coming here without a proper vetting and where are they? Right here where I live hundreds of known marijuana grow houses in super rural Maine purchased by mostly Chinese who can’t hardly speak English. They come from NY and MA where those states will and do give driving licenses to illegals. Suddenly they show up and buy dilapidated old homes and open grow houses. An investigation has shown they have learned how to steal from the grid while paying for only some of it. These houses are regularly using 10k+ kw hours of electricity per month. State Police doing nothing because the useless governor appointed the Commissioner and because we or I should say Portland voted in 2016 to legalized the drug it’s not a high priority item. Drug goes back to the black market. Money goes where? Yup no crisis.

We have them here, too, in spite of legalization, in rural areas for the most part.
It's getting harder to make a living in our Emerald Triangle than it was when it was outlawed.