.. Which means they can do them... if Congress consents .. This should require a simple Senate majority, not 60 votes.
Three hurdles spring to mind at first glance, and are offered merely for consideration:
1) Time - there are only two years of this bøstard left, and legislatures tend to act glacially;
2) Federal Courts - Utmost care with the wording of any compact must be taken to forestall, to the extent possible, any excuse for involvement of the (predominantly) black-robed usurpers;
3) Regional Prerogatives - ie avoiding the temptation for participating states too insist on inclusion of items specific enough to be off-putting to other participating states.
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Rather than being buried in the midst of this tangential article's comments, your fine work is well deserving of the increased visibility of a separate thread, and I would strongly encourage you to post same ASAP.
If something concrete isn't done to stop this traitør bastard, Mencken's black flag has every chance of becoming a common sight.
Alas I'm swamped this week and don't think I have enough time available to run a thread. So I took what little time I had to formulate my idea and dumped it in a promising pre-existing thread. I hope to find time to email it to Steve King, at the other end of my state and Sen. Cruz, trusting that if it gets noticed by either's staff it would spread to appropriate places. Other than King, Iowa isn't the right place to start this. Hurdles: Time, Federal Courts and Regional Prerogatives
This obviously needs to be done fast, starting with a small circle of activists like Gov. elect Abbott (who as good lawyer would understand and design better than Perry who'd be better used to evangelize it.) The RGA should be a strength, but with Christy in charge there should be avoided as long as possible. Because of the need for speed it should, at least initially, be as narrow in scope and as simple as meets the needs. Like ObamaCare, explicitly leave many of the details to the discretion of those implementing it, the states. I trust Compacts can be revised later as needed with additional Congressional support. If it flies the concept can be reused later for disparate groups of states. Push the regional issues back to the second round.
The Federal Courts are the libs big weapon. Limiting or even removing their jurisdiction is ours. It's been little used, so is poorly understood, alas including by me. Newt had spoken some of its past usage. I think it could be written to neuter the lower courts. This crisis justifies bringing it out. If only the Supremes, who are historically not eager for new large responsibilities, nor eager to jump into separation of power fights, can overturn it we have a chance to be tying up his remaining time, rather than him tying up ours. Write it to encourage any judge to allow it to operate pending review as it approximates the legal norm while without it Obama created an unlawful black hole. It should be written so the Supremes, in taking it up, would have the choice to come down against Obama's actions as well as to come down against our response. Express the concept that the Constitution is not a suicide pact. This would not be intended to be permanent, but a temporary patch, lamentably geographically partial, until Constitutional executive functioning resumes. Strategically there should be public plea for Biden to invoke the 25th ('this is crazy, the President is crazy, take over, Joe, until you can get him some help') and there should be some effort through the media to get 34+ Senate Rats on the record that they don't think this is impeachable. I doubt the Rats, especially Biden, could resist responding, thus establishing our case that we had no other option.
Tell the public, we're NOT shutting down any part of government. We're trying to rescue as much of what Obama shut down as we can. If people want their rule of law back contact their state government and urge them to join the Compact.