GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations
GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations
We have been here before. It does not end well.
This week, Republican governors across the country escalated their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border by invoking the same legal theory that slave states wielded to justify secession before the Civil War.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, joined by 25 other GOP governors, now argues that the Biden administration has violated the federal government’s “compact” with the states—an abdication that justifies state usurpation of federal authority at the border.
This language embraces the Confederacy’s conception of the Constitution as a mere compact that states may exit when they feel it has been broken. It’s dangerous rhetoric that transcends partisan grandstanding. And as before, it’s being used to legitimize both nullification and dehumanization.
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He’s got the US flag behind him, and he’s threatening to secede?!!
I mean his hero is a presidential candidate who is selling shirts that say 'No Surrender' under a photo of his mugshot, taken after he surrendered to the police.
Yeah but was volunteering to help out the police. Or something.
That flag doesn’t symbolize America. It symbolizes Merika.
Oh yes of course. Please forgive my ignorance of their blessed wisdom.
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