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To: Alighieri who wrote (713881)	5/7/2013 8:16:35 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578969

It would be less dramatic than that. Despite the pleasure so many would have seeing Perry et al doing a perp walk, the most likely response would be to hold up all government payments.

To: Alighieri who wrote (713881)	5/8/2013 1:15:03 AM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1578969

It wouldn't matter if new federal laws are entirely constitutional; it wouldn't matter if the new laws saved lives; it wouldn't matter if the new news enjoyed broad, bipartisan support. Under the proposal pending in Texas, current laws have reached a ceiling, and any effort to raise that ceiling must be ignored. This is what Alabama did just recently...it's typical republican bullshit. Now assume for a minute that a state like Texas, after the supreme court tells it that they can't ignore constitutional fed regulation, then goes ahead and ignores it anyway...here comes a crisis where the fed has to enforce the laws and heaven knows how they do that...the military comes in and arrests perry and the legislature? I don't know. Unfortunately, this red state antipathy for the federal gov't never ends. It started before the Civil War, burst into flame during the Civil War, has smoldered and burned periodically since then. The irony is that they insist on biting the hand that feeds them.

To: Alighieri who wrote (713881)	5/8/2013 1:37:37 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578969

>> This is what Alabama did just recently...it's typical republican bullshit. Now assume for a minute that a state like Texas, after the supreme court tells it that they can't ignore constitutional fed regulation, then goes ahead and ignores it anyway...here comes a crisis where the fed has to enforce the laws and heaven knows how they do that...the military comes in and arrests perry and the legislature? I don't know. Talk about going off the rails. They're clearly setting up a Supreme Court challenge to any such legislation. Which totally makes sense as an orderly way to oppose the federal legislation. No one is talking about refusing to abide by the Court's decision. Shit. You people are drinking too much coffee or something.