Can Texas Really Secede From The Union - National Divorce?

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You cannot just say "who's currency is tied to the price of cookie dough" and move on. I'm gonna need a whole episode on that. 😂

This channel started as genuine advice for law students, then transitioned into reviewing pop culture depictions of the law, and is now consistently explaining how the entire United States government effectively exists, one exciting time

9:31 to be fair "x cannot be sued without its consent, and it has not consented" is kind of a really terrifying legal sentence

I really hate that so much of what ends up on the public school curriculum is messed with by politicians and the most extreme members of the PTA crowd.

Now, I'm not a lawyer, but there is a flaw in the Air Bud ruling. There may not be any rule saying a dog can't play basketball. But there is a rule saying that the only ones who can play in the team must be students at the school. Since Buddy wasn't a student at the school, he couldn't play on the basketball team, regardless of his species.

I admire the discipline and professionalism it took to go the entire 18-minute video without once saying the word "Texit."

My position is to remind my American friends about the last US civil war and the huge casualties on both sides. Politicians who spread panic and intolerance will certainly not send their sons to the front lines.

As a Maine Native living not far from the Canadian Border i find the idea of Maine doing that both hilarious and awesome despite realistically impossible.

The “Let’s at least stay together until the kids are out of the house” was so good he had to do it twice

"America doesn't have to swear allegiance to the crown, because we're dope and we do dope things," is not something I ever had on my Legal Eagle bingo card.

im a little confused why states do not have the option of leaving if they want to. America isnt a dictatorship or a kingdom. Why shouldnt states be allowed to leave through a vote?

Was not expecting a Molossia reference today! Wow. That brings back some interesting memories from the 2010s.

I was today years old when I learned as a foreigner that when Texas was deporting migrants to Martha's Vineyard, they weren't actually deporting them to Martha Steward's personal property.

A very big reason that a national divorce would not work is because most states are actually purple. The only reason the states are labled red or blue is because the Congessional districts are highly gerimandered. Each state that cecedes would have a fight on their hands from within.

props to the commitment to cosplay by the president of molossia. he goes hard.

15:56 Never thought I'd see a Mean Girls reference from this channel 😂

This is something that Texas keeps bringing up, and it always ends up going nowhere. Several years ago I did an analysis of "what would happen if Texas left?" for a popular blog. Succinctly put: Nothing good for Texas. There is this myth that these secessionists have that nothing happens when they leave. They don't count on the military bases closing, the loss of federal grants and aid to their universities, that they'll need to get passports to travel to any state, and that all their businesses will have to deal with being "foreign suppliers" with all that entails. That's just the start of the things that happen. The economic and social damage they'll experience will be very bad, along with the reality that ... we might not want them back.

I grew up in the Texas public school system decades ago. In Texas history classes , they drilled into our heads that Texas was special due to how they negotiated their entrance to the Union with that mentioned "prenup/anullment" clause - obviously not what they called it but same idea. So I'm not surprised how many think it is a viable possibility.

From the Texas v. White decision, "The Union of the States never was a purely artificial and arbitrary relation. It began among the Colonies, and grew out of common origin, mutual sympathies, kindred principles, similar interests, and geographical relations. It was confirmed and strengthened by the necessities of war, and received definite form and character and sanction from the Articles of Confederation. By these, the Union was solemnly declared to "be perpetual." And when these Articles were found to be inadequate to the exigencies of the country, the Constitution was ordained "to form a more perfect Union." It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?"