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Texas v. White, 74 U.S. (7 Wall.) 700 (1869), was a case argued before the Supreme Court of the U.S. in 1869. [1] The case's notable political dispute involved a claim by the Reconstruction era government of Texas that U.S. bonds owned by Texas since 1850 had been illegally sold by the Confederate state legislature during the American Civil War.
White, the 1869 Supreme Court case which ruled that unilateral secession from the United States is illegal, would prevent the enactment of the Texas Independent Referendum Act. Proponents supporting the act, including Biedermann and Slaton, all state that the people of Texas should be given the right to vote on whether they wish to stay in the ...
In Grovey v. Townsend (1935), the Supreme Court ruled that this practice was constitutional, as it was administered by the Democratic Party, which legally was a private institution, not a state institution. In 1944, however, in Smith v. Allwright, the Supreme Court ruled 8–1 against the Texas white primary system. [7]
The Supreme Court's 1869 decision in Texas v. White put paid to the idea there was some reversible voluntary component to membership in this union of states. That case involved a suit over bonds ...
Current Supreme Court precedent, in Texas v. White, holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state. [7] More recently, in 2006, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia stated, "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede." [8]
The Supreme Court on July 1, 2024, kept on hold efforts by Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content in a ruling that strongly ...
Texas Dept. of Housing and Community Affairs v. Inclusive Communities Project, Inc., 576 U.S. 519 (2015), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court analyzed whether disparate impact claims are cognizable under the Fair Housing Act. [1]
Since the Supreme Court first convened in 1790, 116 justices have served on the bench. Of those, 108 have been White men. But in recent decades the court has become more diverse.