[eyeamok]

Force the Issue and Shut the entire State down, make them over ride everything until they say Uncle, then Demand the petition include the Roundup Of those current Criminal Invaders unlawfully inhabitating our State.

[Publius]

The only way that can be done is if California satisfies the requirements of the Insurrection Act of 1807. When South Carolina's forces fired on Fort Sumter, that satisfied the conditions, and President Lincoln invoked the act. That gave him tremendous powers to put down the insurrection.

So far, agents of the state of California have not challenged agents of the federal government in a firefight. Nor have agents of the state openly defied a federal court order or an Act of Congress like Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama did during the integration battles of the Fifties and Sixties. California's passive resistance does not yet constitute an insurrection under the 1807 law. Once California crosses that line, the state can be declared in insurrection by the president, and the federal entity can do what it needs to do to bring California back into harmony with the rest of the Union.

Further, thanks to precedents left over from the Civil War, a pacified California could have its statehood suspended until it writes a new constitution and establishes a new government satisfactory to Congress.