My point is, SCOTUS decisions are the end all be all final word on ANY subject. I am of the belief that any state can secede at any time. It’s simply withdrawling from a contract. The federal government has violated that contract and hence, the other parties can depart said contract.
Nowhere in the Constitution does it expressly forbid the states from seceding, nowhere does it even remotely come close to hinting at secession as being forbidden. Hence, the beloved 10th amendment rides in and saves the day. But to some people, simple logic is as complex physics.
You can not simply withdraw from a contract. If you could, there would be no need to have a contract, and no contract could protect a party when you pay money for a service. The party paid could then ‘simply withdraw’ from the contract.
Pretending to simply withdraw from a contract creates a controversy between the state and the federal government which would be, per the constitution, resolved with the Supreme court as original distribution.