California secessionists are at it again. For the third time, a “Calexit” ballot initiative was filed Thursday with the Secretary of State, in yet another attempt to push the most populous state to secede from the United States.
Two former titans of the Senate’s limited-government conservative right, Jim DeMint and Tom “Dr. No” Coburn, have lent their voices and experience to Convention of States, an initiative to bring about a state-led convention to amend the U.S. Constitution.
Former South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint (R) has joined the Convention of States as a senior adviser, a press release announces.
The Republican-controlled Texas Legislature passed a Convention of States Resolution, becoming the eleventh. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows for a Convention of States to restrict the power of the federal government.
The seven most terrifying words were uttered by Steve Bannon at CPAC this week— “We are here to dismantle the administrative state.”
Governor Greg Abbott addressed members of the Texas House and Senate in his State of the State Address on Tuesday and laid out his emergency items, including banning sanctuary cities, reforming the embattled agency responsible for safeguarding children, calling for a Convention of States to address overreaches by the federal government, and ethics reform governing elected officials.
ROCK HILL, South Carolina — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a 2016 GOP presidential candidate, told Breitbart News Daily in an interview here that aired Friday morning on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 that he backs an Article V Constitutional Convention of the States to amend the U.S. Constitution for a variety of reasons. Those reasons, Bush laid out in the interview conducted aboard his campaign bus here after a town hall event on Thursday evening, include having a Balanced Budget Amendment, a Line-Item Veto Amendment, and a Term Limits Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently called on the Lone Star State to join other states in calling for an Article V Convention of States.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently called on the Lone Star State to join other states in calling for an Article V Convention of States.
On Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott provided a glimmer of hope for constitutional conservatives who want to see a restoration of balance between the massively overweening federal government and the increasingly irrelevant state governments.
Governor Greg Abbott calls on Texas to join other states in calling for an Article V Convention of the States to write new amendments to the U.S. Constitution. He says his 100-page “Texas Plan” “fixes this government run amok” and “returns lawmaking to the process enshrined in the Constitution.”
