No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
It seems to me that the Governor of New Mexico, endorsing the Democrat revolt in Texas by using New Mexico police to protect renegade Texas politicians, is entering into an agreement or compact with another state, especially since he also mentions Colorado and elsewhere.
-PJ
I don't think so. That has to do with war, not political nonsense like this. Also, it says "with another state," not "any body or agency of another state."
I think that probably there would have been some Constitutional safeguards against this sort of thing if the authors had imagined that someone would do something so durn devious. I mean, can you believe that the founding fathers wouldn't have loaded their muskets if they had witnessed something like this:
At a news conference inside the hotel Tuesday, Richardson had a message for Texas Republicans, including U.S. House Majority Floor Leader Tom DeLay, who the fleeing lawmakers say is part of the remapping effort."I think [DeLay] should back off," the governor said.
Poised in front of a Texas flag, Richardson [the freaking governor of another state] said the Republicans [of a state that he has no business in] should "put redistricting on the back burner and deal with issues affecting people, like health care and education."
From California to New Jersey to Florida to Texas to New Mexico, this is what the Democrats are all about: finding or inventing loopholes so they can do what they wamn dell please.