Remember the Civil War?
I mean, of course not - only Joe Biden was around for that. Or so he may have claimed during one of his rhetorical flights of imagination.
In and among many other social, political and economic causes, the Civil War started when eleven states decided to defy Federal law in relation to the issue of slavery, claiming the Federal government was overstepping its powers in trying to regulate, much less abolish, the practice at the state level. Eventually that defiance turned into outright secession and rebellion, leading before long to war.
Now, Americans should be leery of specious political and historical parallels, as anyone who's had to endure listening to Tim Walz call Republicans "fascists", and then double down on it, will tell you.
But it's hard to ignore the fact that eleven American states have declared themselves "sanctuaries" for illegal immigration; California, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and the Washingtons (state and DC) have proclaimed themselves above and beyond federal law on an issue that is unambiguously a federal power and responsibility.
And as David Catron points out at American Spectator, it's almost as if the powers that be in those states have declared themselves...some sort of group.
An alliance?
A confabulation?
Or...a confederacy?
Not coincidentally, the Democrat governors of these states routinely denounce our current GOP president, Donald Trump, as a dictator. Recently, for example, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused him of “militarizing cities” and insisted: “These are the acts of a dictator, not a President.” Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker has also likened Trump to a dictator. Not to be outdone, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has called him a “wannabe dictator.” This nonsense has been parroted by nearly all sanctuary state governors.
If you are thinking that ridiculous claims that President Trump is a dictator don’t necessarily mean these people are part of some organized confederacy whose raison d’être combines resistance to Trump’s immigration policies and obstructing the enforcement of federal immigration laws, you’re right. But wait. To coin a phrase, there’s more: A document obtained by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project reveals a pact among twenty-two blue states and two sanctuary cities, pledged to collectively prepare “potential litigation” challenging any effort to curtail birthright citizenship. It was composed, proofed and ready to sign by November 8, 2024.
While this particular
🚨SECRET BLUE STATE RESISTANCE AGREEMENT OBTAINED - BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP🚨
— Oversight Project (@ItsYourGov) February 11, 2025
We have obtained a secret agreement between 22 blue states, DC, and San Francisco, signed beginning on November 8, 2024. This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump's landslide election win,… pic.twitter.com/7AsqgCjlcX
They "brought the receipts", as the kids are saying these days - the pact, signed by a dog's breakfast of blue-state and blue-city attorneys-general, solicitors and other law-enforcement officials.
The work product coming from this pact - the wave of lawsuits attempting to block or stall deportations and the rationalization of "birthright citizenship" - have been underway every since the Trump Administration took office:
An army of Democrat lawyers attacked the President’s executive order in court, which inevitably produced nationwide injunctions temporarily halting implementation. The Trump DOJ filed an emergency appeal with SCOTUS, where oral arguments were heard on May 15 concerning the abusive use of nationwide injunctions by district courts. The Trump administration is likely to win on that issue, which will deprive sanctuary states of an important weapon in their legal arsenal. Meanwhile, three sanctuary state governors were dragged before Congress to explain why they have brazenly violated federal immigration laws they each took oaths to uphold:
The effects of this, er, Confederacy's actions are not lost on anyone who's seen the their consequences. From the recent House hearings on immigration:
In one particularly revealing exchange, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) peppered Gov. Hochul about the results of her state’s lethal “Green Light Law.” Rep. Stefanik asked the Empire State’s governor if she was familiar with the name, Sebastian Zapita Khalil and what crime he had committed. Hochul was typically clueless, so Stefanik enlightened her: “He found a sleeping woman on the subway, lit her on fire, and burned her alive … ICE had issued an order to detain this violent criminal, but that was rejected by New York officials, due to sanctuary state laws.” Hochul, like the proverbial deer in the headlights, obviously didn’t know whether to run or be rundown.
All of this, by the way, interfering with the "due process" for enforcing immigration laws in Federal law, even as most of those same "law enforcment" officials yap on about "due process" in deportation cases.
When will this defiance of Federal law and (ahem) due process be called what it is - an insurrection?
