People keep talking about “Federalizing the National Guard” and now you’ve got other States pledging their NG to Texas in defiance of the Supreme Court (see image).

So is this what CW2 looks like?

P.S. I’m a Brit

  • JustAnotherRando@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Legal Eagle just released a video on exactly this topic. Spoiler: the whole Texas being allowed to secede is basically a myth and pretty much all scholars agree that Texas nor any other state has the ability to leave except by a mutually agreed dissolution or via revolution.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Legal Eagle just released a video on exactly this topic.

      Love his videos! I’ll be sure to check it out.

    • ohitsbreadley@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 months ago

      The thing about law though, is that it’s just a framework of written social contracts between rational parties agreeing to abide by the terms and consequences.

      Reality is a bit different.

      Texas could halt physical transport of goods/services. Refuse to buy US imports. Stop collecting tax revenue. Gun down federal employees that don’t swear Texan allegiance.

      It doesn’t really matter what legal papers say, when it comes to actions.

      Sure - there may be consequences for such “illegal” state actions, and the documented illegality would be articulated as official justification after administering such consequences.

      But that also only matters if Texas is defeated … in the unlikely event they “win,” - they’d write their own narrative with legal justification.