Abrignac wrote:Considering the fact that the SCOTUS ruled in 1869 (I think that is the year) that Texas and other states could not secede I don’t think any option that includes secession is available.
I don’t think civil war is an option because I don’t see an armed conflict between the Texas National Guard. I seriously doubt there is a serving General who would order units under his command to fire upon “friendly” forces.
At some point the issues at the core of this will be settled by the SCOTUS. When that happens the winners will gloat, the losers will talk about how the SCOTUS is illegitimate or not, then the loser will tuck its tail and abide by the decision.
What the SCOTUS ruled in 1869 is not law, it's not even constitutional, so Texas can tell that SCOTUS to go suck it.
The SCOTUS is a political branch of the general government so how can it be trusted with 100% certainty to protect the liberties of the states and the people against the unlawful predations of the other branches? Clearly, there needs to be a further check against such acts.
As Jefferson wrote in the 1799 Kentucky Resolution which declared the Alien and Sedition Acts unconstitutional:
Quote:That the principle and construction contended for by sundry of the state legislatures, that the general government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism; since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy
Judicial supremacists, and living constitution zealots which are most often lefties will say (wrongly) that any constitutional dispute settled by majority SCOTUS opinion is the law of the land, that is as long as the SCOTUS does what they want it to do. If not...well they call for revolution.