GOP Governors Invoke the Confederate Theory of Secession to Justify Border Violations
Republican governors are invoking the same legal theory used by slave states to justify secession before the Civil War in their conflict with the Biden administration over the southern border.
They argue that the federal government has violated the 'compact' between the United States and the states, justifying state usurpation of federal authority.
25 GOP Governors "Stand With Texas" in Defying Supreme Court at Border
Twenty-five Republican governors support Greg Abbott's defiance of a Supreme Court order to remove razor wire along the US-Mexico border
Abbott's actions are seen as posing a significant threat to federal authority