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Graylight · 2022-06-20T10:13:27-04:00

Politics - Prayers ARE answered Regarding the Texas problem: (Quote) Godspeed, Texas. (64 replies).

Regarding the Texas problem:

Texas Could Secede From U.S. in 2023 as GOP Pushes for Referendum

Texas Republicans are pushing for a referendum to decide whether the state should secede from the U.S.

The demand for Texans to be allowed to vote on the issue in 2023 was one of many measures adopted in the Texas GOP's party platform following last week's state convention in Houston.

Under a section titled "State Sovereignty," the platform states: "Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government. Therefore, federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified.
Newsweek

Godspeed, Texas.

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SteelHands · 61-69, M

All the top people are fairly clueless at this point.

Sleepy only ices the cake.

Look up the ratification of Texas motion to be admitted as a state to the Union.

Pretty sure to seceed from the Union you have to actually have been admitted into statehood.

I could be wrong if there's a defacto point of law that's to be made here.

LeopoldBloom · M

@SteelHands Article IV, Section 3 describes the mechanism for creating new states. It requires the concurrence of the state legislature and Congress. I believe in Texas' case, they already have congressional approval to divide into as many as 5 states as a condition of their reentry after the Civil War, so if the Texas state legislature decreed that it is now the states of East, South, West, North, and Central Texas, that's all that would be needed. However, this doesn't mean they can secede.