WI GOP to vote on secession at state convention [View all]

[MohRokTah]

It's a moot point since the SCOTUS ruled in Texas v. White 74 U.S. 700 (1869) that no state can unilaterally secede from the union, but the teabaggers were never ones to accept constitutional law.

To secede or not to secede.

That will be the question for Wisconsin Republicans at next month's convention.

Earlier this month, the party's Resolutions Committee voted in favor of a proposal that says the state party "supports legislation that upholds Wisconsin's right, under extreme circumstances, to secede."

A version of the so-called "state sovereignty" resolution was first OK'd last month by one of the state GOP's eight regional caucuses as an assertion of the state's 10th Amendment rights. The measure also calls for ending all mandates that go "beyond the scope of the constitutionally delegated powers of the federal government.

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Link to Milwaukee-Wisconsin Sentinal Journal article.