I thought I recall hearing about a court case in which the Supreme Court declared there is no right to secede.
Anyone else recall this?
I believe it was a case brought right after the Civil War, and had something to do with connections of the states to each other , and to the Union.
“I thought I recall hearing about a court case in which the Supreme Court declared there is no right to secede.”
And the Supreme Court told Biden he could not fogive student loans too..
If Tx goes.. Maybe Congress will subpoena them and hold them in contempt!!
Yeah, see my Number 10.
The bottom line, no matter what Fedzilla and their courts say, the right to self determination is the absolute cornerstone of America and human liberty. The Federal Republic is not a suicide pact.
It is right in the Declaration of Independence in very wide permissive language.
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security”.
So yes... the founders would never agree that there was no right to separate, though they likely would have tried to stop it with everything short of force.
Texas vs White? I think that's the one you are talking about.
At that time, the courts were going to do whatever the people in the executive branch told them to do. Lincoln issued an arrest warrant for Chief Justice Taney. The federal marshal he handed it to, (Ward Hill Lamon) wisely chose not to do it.
But the point remained. That government had no problem with the idea of throwing Judges in prison. That was a tyrannical era.
In that case West Virginia was not allowed to secede from Virginia and should be a part of Virginia again.