Texas GOP floats secession after Supreme Court defeat
by
Anthony Leonardi, Breaking News Reporter
| December 11, 2020 08:24 PM
The Texas Republican Party chairman released a statement that all but calls for the state to secede from the Union immediately.
The statement was released after the
Supreme Court rejected a Texas challenge to President-elect Joe Biden's wins in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Michigan.
"The Supreme Court, in tossing the Texas lawsuit that was joined by seventeen states and 106 US congressmen, have decreed that a state can take unconstitutional actions and violate its own election law. Resulting in damaging effects on other states that abide by the law, while the guilty state suffers no consequences. This decision establishes a precedent that says states can violate the US constitution and not be held accountable," the statement reads.
"This decision will have far reaching ramifications for the future of our constitutional republic. Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution," the statement continues.
It ends with a sentence that says the "Texas GOP will always stand for the Constitution and for the rule of law even while others don't."
The decision means all Trump-nominated justices on the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett, sided against the president's case. The Electoral College will meet to vote Monday to make Biden the next president of the United States.
The lawsuit all but ends President Trump's chances at overturning the results of the election in key swing states.