He instructed the governmental oversight committee to study the implications of adding to Texas “one or more contiguous counties of New Mexico” and the process to do so, after welcoming a proposal out of New Mexico to allow its counties to band together and secede. While the Texas-New Mexico boundary is unlikely to shift next year, the proposal will likely appeal to pro-secessionists in Texas, some of whom are among Burrows’ conservative skeptics.
Too bad, Lincoln’s post-Civil-War supreme court preemptively torpedoed this one. It’s been ruled that you need permission from the rest of the union to secede and can’t do it unilaterally, even through the union was formed in the first place via unilaterally seceding from the British empire.
…Because that makes sense.
Anyhoo, even if these dingbats succeed according to their own metrics the federal government won’t let them go. So have fun with that. Not that I trust any of said dingbats to have actually studied any history on the matter whatsoever, or on any other matter while we’re at it.
They aren’t going anywhere. As a part of the USA it’s blood in / blood out.
This is about a New Mexico county’s secession to become apart of Texas, not secession from the US.
Conservatives know secession from the country is illegal so their politicians find a slightly greyer area - states seceding to other states - to start planting the seed into their base’s heads. They then cultivate the plant as vigorously as possible and by the time someone looks up the law, it’s too late - the idea has been thoroughly rooted. This is one of their most time-honored strategies.
Then Houston joins California and out comes the surprised Pikachu.
I’m positive that’s verboten as well. The constitution is quite clear that this requires the approval of Congress.
Yes, which i assume will be the finding of whoever was assigned to layout the process
No, they would be apart from the US, but joined with Texas.