Sometimes folks make me laugh. Of course Scalia was 100% correct. He wasn’t issuing a legal opinion, in fact he stated he did not envision a manner in which the question would come before the court. He was alluding to historical reality, including the pledge which forced states to acknowledge the union is indivisible.
And you folks who think the states can still secede, that some of their armies could defeat the federal government, etc. really need to get a life. It ain’t happening and let’s pray it never does again.
“And you folks who think the states can still secede, that some of their armies could defeat the federal government, etc. really need to get a life. It ain’t happening and let’s pray it never does again.”
The question is, if one of the states today announced that it was amicably leaving the union (let’s say Texas or Vermont), would a tyrannical central government wage a scorched earth war on it rather than letting it go its own way?
I agree