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The U.S. Constitution does not specifically address the secession of states, and the issue was a topic of debate after the American Revolutionary War until the Civil War, when the Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that states strictly cannot unilaterally secede except through revolution or the expressed consent of the other states. [3 ...
Secession Is Back in Style in Texas. Brian Doherty. October 13, 2024 at 3:00 AM. Illustration: Joanna Andreasson/ChatGPT-4. For two weeks in April, the top movie in America explored what would ...
Abortion in Texas is illegal in most cases. [1] There are nominally exceptions to save the mother's life, or prevent "substantial impairment of major bodily function", but the law on abortion in Texas is written in such an ambiguous way that life-threatening or harmful pregnancies do not explicitly constitute an exception. [2][3][4] Attempts to ...
A 2023 study by a Colby College professor found that more than 25% of Americans support some sort of secession by states, ... nationally to states like Texas and Florida, but also in the "white ...
The state passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act into law in April 2022, which protects abortion rights, and assures "every individual has a fundamental right to make decisions about the individual's reproductive health care, including the fundamental right to use or refuse contraception; a pregnant individual has a fundamental right to ...
The state party platform adopted in 2022 states that "Texas retains the right to secede from the United States" and calls on the Legislature to put the matter to put the measure on the statewide ...
Republican in a few states, including Texas, have raised the prospect of secession. SAN ANTONIO — Among the worst-case scenarios: Political violence escalates ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
The Texas Independence Referendum Act (HB 3596), commonly shortened to TEXIT, was a failed Texas state legislation which, if passed, would have called for a state referendum on the secession of Texas from the United States. While prior versions of the legislation have been introduced under similar titles, this most recent version was introduced ...