Gov. Greg Abbott seems to be having a troublesome time understanding the Structure because it pertains to immigration, so Stephen Colbert defined it to him.
Colbert mentioned:
Abbott launched an anti-immigration crackdown, placing razor wire alongside 60 miles of the border. However the federal authorities didn’t just like the razor wire, saying it bodily prevented border patrol brokers from coming into the realm, processing migrants, and offering help to drowning victims, which is why border patrol had been reducing the razor wire to succeed in them. As a common rule, you need to have the ability to assist people who find themselves drowning or actually in any mortal hazard, not make issues worse. That’s why the hearth security indicators don’t say, “Stop, drop, and stab.” Now, as soon as the feds began reducing the wire, Abbott sued, however he additionally doubled down, putting in razor wire below the floor of the Rio Grande and round noticed blades between buoys. Subsequent, he’s gonna change the poem on the Statue of Liberty from “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” to “Would you like to play a game?”
The razor wire case went to the Supreme Courtroom, which dominated in opposition to Texas in a 5-4 determination with no particulars or explanations supplied. The dissents merely learn “Nay, nay, nay,” and “Does this luxury RV come in mother-of-pearl?” Now, this actually ought to have been a transparent 9-0 determination in opposition to Texas.
The federal authorities has the ultimate say on immigration. It’s within the Structure. It’s referred to as the supremacy clause and it clearly states that federal legislation and federal treaty obligations “Shall be the supreme law of the land.” For these of you who didn’t go to legislation college, supreme legislation means it comes with bitter cream. However unanimous or not, SCOTUS has spoken. It’s been determined, proper? Flawed. ‘Trigger Greg Abbott is plowing forward.
After the ruling, the Texas Nationwide Guard ignored the Supreme Courtroom determination and Abbott continued development alongside the border, claiming that he doesn’t need to take heed to the Supreme Courtroom as a result of the Biden administration had “Broken the compact between the United States and the states,” a reference to an archaic thought referred to as the “compact theory and nullification.” That idea states that states can ignore any federal legal guidelines they select. It was used to justify secession by the confederacy and was initially championed within the 1830s by vp, infamous racist, and man who simply obtained spun round within the barber chair and doesn’t like what he sees, John C. Calhoun. Calhoun opposed a tariff again then designed to assist northern producers, and he satisfied his dwelling state of South Carolina to move a legislation nullifying the tariff of their state. Nicely, that didn’t please president and pantene-american, Andrew Jackson.
President Jackson threatened to invade South Carolina, so Calhoun backed down, and the state repealed the nullification act. Jackson by no means forgave his vp. When requested about his time in workplace, Jackson replied, “I regret I was unable to hang John C. Calhoun.” Cling his vp? So Trump has no authentic concepts. [Applause] We’re cooking alongside. We’re buzzing. Now, Abbott says that nullification applies right here as a result of the frenzy of migrants on the border constitutes an invasion. However that argument was struck down in 1800 by James Madison, who, it’s value remembering, wrote the [bleep] Structure. He mentioned, “Invasion is an operation of war, and the removal of alien friends has appeared to be no incident to a general state of war.” He’s saying this isn’t an invasion as a result of we’re not at struggle with Mexico or anybody else. These migrants fall below the class of “Alien friends,” alongside Mork, E.T., Sew, and Tilda Swinton.
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It isn’t fairly often that viewers get a proof of the supremacy clause, nullification idea, and a John C. Calhoun namedrop on a comedy present. In reality, it isn’t fairly often that these issues are talked about on cable information.
Greg Abbott doesn’t have the ability or authority to do what he’s doing on the border, and sure, states pondering that they’ll nullify and ignore federal legal guidelines and powers is the ideological underpinning for the Civil Warfare.
It isn’t an exaggeration to counsel that Abbott’s conduct might provoke an actual disaster on the border What Republicans aren’t saying is that secession may be the one method that they get Trump again into energy, and that’s what Abbott’s conduct is admittedly all about.
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