new balkanization news, come get your civil war slop
The Utah bill, introduced as the “Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” was signed into law by Gov. Spencer Cox on January 31.
“The Legislature may, by concurrent resolution, prohibit a government officer from enforcing or assisting in the enforcement of a federal directive within the state if the Legislature determines the federal directive violates the principles of state sovereignty,” the law states.
With the bill, Utah joins a long-standing small-c conservative push to promote states’ rights, particularly when the federal government is controlled by the opposing party. It’s a debate going back to the original founders of the US Constitution, through the “Nullification Crisis” of 1832-33, when South Carolina tried to avoid paying federal tariffs, and into the Southern states’ attempts to avoid racial integration in schools in the 1950s.
Most recently, Texas and the US have been in a legal battle over security at the US-Mexico border, historically under the federal government’s control. Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of the federal government, but the tight vote suggested the principles of the Supremacy Clause “might be in a degree of flux,” according to CNN Supreme Court analyst Steve Vladeck.
Utah Sen. Scott Sandall, who sponsored the Sovereignty Act, said he hoped the bill spreads to other states.
Biden isn't doing shit about it.
We keep hearing how Biden is thenonly person who can stand up to the fascists but any halfway competent position would involve cutting off all federal funding as soon as this bill came up for discussion.
"They passed a bill declaring themselves above the authorift of the federal government sonwere not gonna a keep giving them money."
Instead it's just a lot of aww shucks and lectures on how we have to let them murder everybody they don't like because if the federal government did anything to stop them we'd be as bad as them.
Obviously there’s no meaningful difference between the two. What I meant is that a democrat in office sends the chuds into a frenzy so they do dumb shit like this bill or having a standoff with the feds in Texas. A vote for Biden is a vote for balkanization.
Joking ofc I would never participate in bourgeois electoralism
Yea saw the flip side of that too when a bunch of libs were actually paying lip service to the idea of direct action for 4 years when Trump was president.
And then immediatly started lecturing people for making the same criticisms 12 hours after Biden was elected.
Libs aren’t ready to secede yet unfortunately. We’ve gotta pump those numbers up!!
They always talk abaout cutting off red states or letting Texas leave but as soon as Biden does nothing they reflexively defend him.