Posted on 07/21/2021 6:32:30 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sounds like a good plan
Nope, it’s parts of other states joining Idaho, not making a new state. It’s funny how you can only see the impossibility and not the possibility. It’s not without precedent, e.g. Texas and Oklahoma used to trade banks of the Red River. Heres a case establishing the boundary between Tennessee and Virginia decided in 1893, 148 U.S. 503, STATE OF VIRGINIA v. STATE OF TENNESSEE, April 3, 1893.
Read the decision carefully from paragraph 52 on, the compacts clause is considered and determined not to apply. This seems a credible source.
I think there’s a reasonable case that if the state legislatures go along with sending those pesky conservatives to Idaho just before the census - it could probably slip by. And even if Congress did decide to get involved, doing what the states wanted could very well hold sway.
Fair enough. I have had this conversation mostly with the State of Jefferson proponents that don’t have a chance in hell of breaking away from California.
In this case, it would just take convincing the OR state legislature that is made of 2/3 Democrats, that they can lose a couple of US Congress critters and Electoral Votes. There is no benefit to the cities, so it is just as big a blockade.
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