Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states, “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.”
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Given the current USSC majority, I think Abbott stands on pretty solid ground. That Texas and other states WERE INVADED is not even open to intelligent discussion.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.Ordering the removal of defensive buoys against invading migrants is the opposite of their constitutional requirement to "protect" the states against invasion.
-PJ
“Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states, “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.”
I fail to see “wrecking ball-sized buoys” mentioned unless you consider wrecking ball-sized buoys “ships of war”.