Someone is going to have to explain to me how the 10th amendment enables a state to "effectively secede". Secede would mean taking over the powers explicitly granted to the Federal government in the Constitution. The 10th doesn't give states veto power over Federal policies they dont' like.
I don’t know but if Texas had a governor with balls we would’ve done this already. The border crisis is worse than anyone even realizes.
Texas guy tried to order no-transport of illegals in order to reduce spread of COVID. A Federal court shot him down. I'm not saying he has balls. I'm illustrating the limits of state power, as long as you keep it within the current legal framework. You can do things and kind of dare them to come get you.
Federal government is pretty limited on what kind of laws it can make. Most of the ones you hate, were in violation of the 10th amendment. They weren't laws the feds could make, only states could have made those. If a state actually stood up and enacted it's 10th amendment right, at this point they could effectively secede, without seceding at all and simply sticking to the constitution.
No, you’re confusing reality with the way things are supposed to be. Unfortunately, the federal government can do anything it wants. That’s one thing they proved under Donald Trump: the Democrats can do anything they want. Anything. Against the law? Doesn’t matter. Not only will they still do it, they’ll tell the media to tell you why it’s awesome.
Dude they were caught lying, caught red-handed, lying and committing fraud to obtain FISA warrants illegally. No one went to prison. Probably one of the biggest crimes ever committed in our nation’s history, easily in the top 10, and not one person went to prison.
Trump often bragged that he was the only thing standing between “them” and “us.” Well he stopped standing. They raped him on a daily basis. Then they raped us. He never resisted Democrat Covid hysteria, he was actually competing with them to see who could prove they cared the most about “doing something” about COVID-19. He stabbed this country in the back at least seven or eight times and constantly stabbed his own foolish followers in the back. He’s a piece of fucking shit.
A lack of respect for the tenth amendment isn't the source of government power creep. As written, the 10th is basically a no-op. Yes, it says that the rest of the power not described is reserved for the states, but that was always implied, and no one is really arguing differently. They just expand Federal power to encompass anything they want through abuse of the rest of the Constitution: the Commerce clause, the Supremacy clause, or one of the many bad ideas that have been amended in. I realize it's all jewy law stuff, but if we're arguing about what's legal, that's what we have to deal with. The pointy end of secession was dealt with in the Civil War, which could of course be re-adjudicated.
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