LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agoNikki Haley: Texas has the right to secede from the United States if it wants tonews.yahoo.comexternal-linkmessage-square213fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkNikki Haley: Texas has the right to secede from the United States if it wants tonews.yahoo.comLopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works to politics @lemmy.world · 7 months agomessage-square213fedilinkfile-text
minus-square52fighters@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoThe threshold is the same as a constitutional amendment because it would take a constitutional amendment to make happen.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·7 months agoEh the process to make a state is a basic referendum, ratifying a state constitution, and then a simple majority in Congress. I’d say if they can get 3/4 yes vote on a new state constitution and get both parts of Congress to agree to let them leave it would be legal. But that’s a pretty high fucking bar.
The threshold is the same as a constitutional amendment because it would take a constitutional amendment to make happen.
Eh the process to make a state is a basic referendum, ratifying a state constitution, and then a simple majority in Congress.
I’d say if they can get 3/4 yes vote on a new state constitution and get both parts of Congress to agree to let them leave it would be legal.
But that’s a pretty high fucking bar.