...but for the record, that assertion is a logical non-sequitur. It does not necessarily follow from a law requiring operation in all states that secession is barred. If one holds that a seceded state is no longer a state, then U.S. law may continue to operate in all states in absence of its operation in that seceded state.
I'm reminded of the scene in "1984" where Richard Burton's character asks John Heard's character if he has received his latest version of Newspeak.
Walt
As you should be. You've been practicing a tortured form of politically motivated linguistic gymnastics on this thread since you arrived here.