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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]
In December 2020, when the Supreme Court refused to hear Texas' lawsuit in Texas v. Pennsylvania, the chair of the Texas GOP, Allen West, suggested that Texas and other like-minded states could leave the Union. [4] [5] [6] In 2022, the Republican Party of Texas added a statement in its party platform that called for a referendum over secession ...
Washington has responded by suing Texas over various issues, including Abbott installing floating barriers to block migrants in the Rio Grande (U.S. v. Abbott) and asserting in its S.B. 4 law the ...
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Secession talk an insult to nation As a disabled American veteran, I strongly agree with Bud Kennedy when he writes that the idea of Texas seceding from the United States is not heroic, nor is it ...
No matter the day or year, chances are somebody in Texas is calling for the Lone Star State to secede from the union.It’s been happening since the 1800s, and it’s happening again amid a ...
Texas Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, 576 U.S. 200 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that license plates are government speech and are consequently more easily regulated/subjected to content restrictions than private speech under the First Amendment.
The Texas Republican Party is in the process of verifying 139,000 petition signatures that would put a "Texit" resolution before March primary voters. Texas Nationalist Movement wants secession ...