To: Morpheus2009
Yeah, I think it will turn out like the “Virginia/West Virginia” decision in 1861 ...
61 posted on
11/16/2016 12:44:35 PM PST by
BlueLancer
("If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future." Winston Churchill)
To: BlueLancer
I am not sure they wouldn't get the unanimous consent from all the states. The lib states would support them, and the conservative states would welcome the 55 liberal electoral votes going bye bye.
Four years after the Civil War, the Texas v. White Supreme Court ruling of 1869 established that no state can ever secede from the union without the unanimous consent of all other states.
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