[Non-Sequitur]

Chief Justice Chase, in his 1869 opinion in Texas vs. White (from which, btw, he should have recused himself, having been a Lincoln cabinet member through over three years of the Civil War), said that secession ordinances were null, void, and illegal. He lied through his teeth. The dissent was better law, but he was a political hack put up there in the CJ's chair by Lincoln himself precisely to do what he did: Homer for the Lincoln Administration and its prosecution of the Civil War.

ROTFLMAO!!!!

But the past is past, let's look to the future. How do you accomplish secession now? Assume for the moment that unilateral secession is legal, how do you go about it? Do you allow the legislature to appoint a committee to vote on it and decide to secede, like South Carolina did? Do you hold a state referendum to vote on the issue? If you do, then should it be a simple majority that takes the state out of the Union or a super majority? What if 50.001% vote to remain, what do those that voted to leave do now? What if a majority vote to stay, but the governor and the legislature announce secession anyway, like North Carolina did? Or what if the governor and legislature announce secession and promise a referendum later to approve it, like Virginia did? Are either of those valid?

[tacticalogic]

I think the answers to those questions will be found in the Texas Constitution.

[puroresu]

Is there any secessionist movement in the history of the planet that you approve of?

[lentulusgracchus]

How do you accomplish secession now?

You don't. You go the other way instead, and hold a constitutional convention to expel the New England States by amending the Constitution.

[lentulusgracchus]

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Back on your medz, laughing boy, before you get all depressed again.

[Publius Valerius]

What if 50.001% vote to remain, what do those that voted to leave do now?

Seemed to be what happened in Quebec. It's not like the world stopped spinning.