Gov. Greg Abbott seems to be having a tough 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 world, processing migrants, and offering help to drowning victims, which is why border patrol had been slicing 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, “Cease, drop, and stab.” Now, as soon as the feds began slicing the wire, Abbott sued, however he additionally doubled down, putting in razor wire underneath 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 drained, your poor, your huddled plenty craving to breathe free” to “Would you prefer to play a sport?”
The razor wire case went to the Supreme Courtroom, which dominated towards Texas in a 5-4 resolution with no particulars or explanations offered. The dissents merely learn “Nay, nay, nay,” and “Does this luxurious RV are available in mother-of-pearl?” Now, this actually ought to have been a transparent 9-0 resolution towards Texas.
The federal authorities has the ultimate say on immigration. It’s within the Structure. It’s known as the supremacy clause and it clearly states that federal regulation and federal treaty obligations “Shall be the supreme regulation of the land.” For these of you who didn’t go to regulation college, supreme regulation means it comes with bitter cream. However unanimous or not, SCOTUS has spoken. It’s been determined, proper? Fallacious. ‘Trigger Greg Abbott is plowing forward.
After the ruling, the Texas Nationwide Guard ignored the Supreme Courtroom resolution and Abbott continued building alongside the border, claiming that he doesn’t must take heed to the Supreme Courtroom as a result of the Biden administration had “Damaged the compact between the US and the states,” a reference to an archaic thought known as the “compact principle and nullification.” That principle 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 vice chairman, 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 residence state of South Carolina to move a regulation nullifying the tariff of their state. Properly, 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 vice chairman. When requested about his time in workplace, Jackson replied, “I remorse I used to be unable to hold John C. Calhoun.” Dangle his vice chairman? 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 conflict, and the removing of alien buddies has seemed to be no incident to a common state of conflict.” He’s saying this isn’t an invasion as a result of we’re not at conflict with Mexico or anybody else. These migrants fall underneath the class of “Alien buddies,” alongside Mork, E.T., Sew, and Tilda Swinton.
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It isn’t fairly often that viewers get an evidence of the supremacy clause, nullification principle, and a John C. Calhoun namedrop on a comedy present. The truth is, it isn’t fairly often that these issues are talked about on cable information.
Greg Abbott doesn’t have the facility 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 Battle.
It isn’t an exaggeration to recommend that Abbott’s conduct may provoke an actual disaster on the border What Republicans aren’t saying is that secession is likely to be the one means that they get Trump again into energy, and that’s what Abbott’s conduct is admittedly all about.
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