Supreme Court extends block on Texas law that would allow police to arrest migrants

No, it's my novel interpretation (why, only Fani Willis, Letitia James, and Alvin Bragg are allowed?) based on Article IV Section 4 and the intent described in Federalist #43.

Madison makes it pretty clear in #43 that the intent of A4S4 was mutual aid between the states to repel invasion and quell rebellion.

The sovereign states delegated limited powers to the federal government, retaining the rest for themselves and the people. Their sovereignty was one of the things retained, which is defined and bounded by their borders. Their borders are their own to protect.

I'd welcome any rebuttal arguments.

-PJ

Dear Texas,

Do it anyway.

EXACTLY.

One side ignores the law. The other side doesn’t. Cant have a country when that is occurring. Time to give the courts the middle finger. Sorry/Not Sorry.

I put myself in the mind of the Framers of 1787 and asked how would the new federal government "protect" the states from invasion with no standing army? I could only conclude that they would rely on the states to look after each other's common interests.

That's what Madison writes in Federalist #43. The federal government coordinates, but the states themselves do the heavy lifting.

If you read my longer post in the link I provided, this was pre-17th amendment thinking, where the states were expected to communicate via their Senators ("on Application of the Legislature" who appointed their Senators) to the President. I argue that executing the guarantees in Article IV Section 4 was a case of the states telling the President what they were going to do, not the states asking the President for permission to do what they wanted to do. That's the very definition of sovereignty.

The limited federal government of 1787 was built to manage interstate affairs via an executive office, with a Supreme Court that had original jurisdiction when a state was involved and a Congress that can create lower court jurisdictions as the need arose.

Otherwise, the states were expected to do the rest, including securing their own borders from invasion, both from other states and from foreign nations.

-PJ

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