Will the real NIKKI please stand up?
Well, she's just another double-talking politician who can't keep her words straight.
States can’t secede, Nikki Haley says
She explained remarks she had made a few days ago about Texas.
By David Cohen
02/04/2024 11:31 AM EST
Quote:Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday said that states can’t secede, backtracking from remarks she made last week.
“According to the Constitution, they can’t,” she told host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
On Wednesday, Haley had said in response to a question about Texans suggesting the state could leave the union, “If Texas decides they want to do that, they can do that. If that whole state says we don’t want to be part of America anymore, I mean, that’s their decision to make.”
On Sunday, the former U.N. ambassador explained she didn’t mean to sound as if she approved of the idea of secession: “What I said is, when government stops listening, let’s remember states’ rights matter. You have to be as close to the people as possible. No one is talking about seceding. That’s not an issue at all.”
Haley is the former governor of South Carolina, the first state to secede after the election of President Abraham Lincoln in 1860, a move that sparked the Civil War. The idea that secession was something American states could attempt has often been credited to John Calhoun, a South Carolinian who served as U.S. vice president under both President John Quincy Adams and President Andrew Jackson.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/04/states-secede-nikki-haley-00139496
First off, Nikki Haley states a falsehood in her talk with Dana Bash. Has she ever read the Constitution? According to the Constitution, there Is nothing that says a state cannot secede from the constitutional compact.
Second, she stated another falsehood when she said, "No one is talking about seceding", The Texas Nationalist Movement announced it collected over 102,000 signatures, more than the 97,709 required by code to secure a 2024 GOP ballot spot through the signature petition process.
The title of the petition states, “Should the State of Texas reassert its status as an independent nation?”.
https://bit.ly/3OvtjcTThird, the author of the article is incorrect, the idea of secession is not something credited to have begun with John Calhoun, John Quincy Adams or Andrew Jackson. The idea of secession, "for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another" began way back with the Declaration of Independence.
Did he also forget the Hartford Convention (December 15, 1814, to January 5, 1815) when New England leaders of the Federalist Party met to discuss secession from the Union?
As Professor Donald Livingston wrote, “As part of expanding this imagination, we must work to remove the moral and philosophical prejudice against the very idea of secession. America was born in secession; secession is essential to the idea of a self-governing people; and until 1865 was widely considered an option available to an American state in all parts of the union. But secession short of national sovereignty is also possible. Parts of cities and counties may secede. A part of a state may secede and form another state as twenty-seven counties in northern California proposed to do in 1992. The mere discussion of the merits of such proposals, whether or not they succeed, will serve to detoxify the idea of secession and re-awaken in Americans the long slumbering notion of self-government induced by the opiate of the Lincolnian ideology of a modern unitary American state.”
