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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Chris Armitage: The legal foundation for soft secession was written by conservative justices who never imagined blue states would use it. Yale Law Professor Heather Gerken calls it "uncooperative federalism." States don't have to actively resist. They can simply refuse to help. And without state cooperation, much of the federal government's agenda becomes unenforceable.

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The infrastructure is built. The legal precedents are established. The money is there. Blue states have spent two years sharpening these tools. Next week, the governors meet again. The agenda, according to three sources, includes a discussion of whether to coordinate state tax policy to offset federal cuts.

As blue states prepare to deny federal agents access to their databases, their highways, maybe even their airspace, the soft secession isn't coming. It's here.

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... Behind closed doors, blue state leaders are planning. They're war-gaming scenarios where federal agents show up and continue to transgress further and further past what is "legal." Daily the courts are showing that that something is legal when Trump wants it to happen, and illegal when he doesn't. How does a government function under these circumstance?

For many state Attorney Generals and Governors, the legal briefs are already drafted. The strategy sessions have been running since December. "We saw this coming, even though we hoped it wouldn't," former Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum told The 19th days after Trump's inauguration. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 10:59 PM | Reply

@#1 ... We saw this coming, even though we hoped it wouldn't," ...

Looks like a total 20/20 back vision of what has happened.

Stated differently, why have Democrats not reacted to it?

Even now, after they seem to admit they saw it coming?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 11:01 PM | Reply

@#2 ... Even now, after they seem to admit they saw it coming? ...

No wonder Democrats seems to view their current representatives so poorly...

Chuck Schumer: Favorable/Unfavorable
www.realclearpolling.com

...
RCP Average 5/3 - 8/3
Favorable: 27.7
Unfavorable: 47.0
Spread: -19.3
...

Yeah, a new group seems to be needed.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-24 11:29 PM | Reply

Careful, Chuck is drafting a strongly worded letter at you, lamp.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-08-25 12:33 AM | Reply

"Blue states are finally learning what red states have known all along: you don't need federal permission to govern."

Wow, its as if they just discovered the 10th Amendment.

#5 | Posted by Miranda7 at 2025-08-25 12:52 AM | Reply

Wow, its as if they just discovered the 10th Amendment.

Does that apply in a national state of emergency?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-25 01:02 AM | Reply

@#5 ... its as if they just discovered the 10th Amendment. ...

How is that comment applicable to the current situation?

thx.


#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-08-25 01:26 AM | Reply

Wow, its as if they just discovered the 10th Amendment.

Does that apply in a national state of emergency?

Posted by REDIAL

Eh, he read something about a comment regarding the 10th amendment and is being a good parrot.

That's all.

#8 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-08-25 02:15 AM | Reply

#9 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-08-25 02:15 AM | Reply

Nice catch! :-)

#10 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-08-25 02:31 AM | Reply

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