REFERENCES:
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/08/california-gov-newsom-signs-measure-to-force-trump-into-releasing-tax-returns/
JackinSilverSpring | August 4, 2019 at 5:38 pm What happens if the United States of America disassociates from California? DemoncRats stand a much lower probability of electing a President or choosing the Speaker of the House. I think that might be a good idea.
PODKen | August 4, 2019 at 6:13 pm And by what process would they do that?
UJ | August 4, 2019 at 5:40 pm Twit.
CALIFORNIA MADE THESE LAWS
OBAMA CARE
H.R. 3590 (111th): Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/111-2010/h165
Yea 219 - Nay 212 - 34 CA yea = 185 yea - 246 nay = bill would not have passed
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
TO PASS H.R. 2444, A BILL TO ESTABLISH A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/96-1979/h289
Yea 210 - Nay 206 - 23 CA yea = 187 yea - 229 Nay = bill would not have passed
GUN CONTROL LEGISLATION
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/27/698512397/house-passes-most-significant-gun-bill-in-2-decades
CA was 18% of all co-sponsors
On passage Passed by the House Yeas 240 - Nay 190 - 43 CA Yeah = Yeah 197 - Nay 233 = BIll would not have passed
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/8/cosponsors
H.R. 3355 (103rd): Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 the assault weapons ban
Yea 235 - Na 195 - 30 CA yea = 205 yea -225 Na = Bill would not have passed
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1994/h416
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993
Yeah 238 - Na 189 -34 CA Yeah = 204 Yea -223 Na = Bill would not have passed
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h564
CALIFORNIA COURTS INFLUENCE AMERICAN COURTS
TO BE VERY LIBERAL SINCE 1940
As the Wall Street Journal said in 1972 “The state's high court over the past 20 years has won a reputation as perhaps the most innovative of the state judiciaries, setting precedents in areas of criminal justice, civil liberties, racial integration, and consumer protection that heavily influence other states and the federal bench.”[36]
From 1940 to 2005
“Statistical analyses conducted by LexisNexis personnel at the Court's request indicate that the decisions of the Supreme Court of California are by far the most followed of any state supreme court in the United States.[37] Between 1940 and 2005, 1,260 decisions of the Court were expressly followed by out-of-state courts (meaning that those courts expressly found the Court's reasoning persuasive and applied it to the cases before them).”
36 Joann Lublin, "Trailblazing Bench: California High Court Often Points the Way for Judges Elsewhere," Wall Street Journal, 20 July 1972, 1.
37 Jake Dear and Edward W. Jessen, " Followed Rates" and Leading State Cases, 1940–2005, 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 683, 694(2007).
https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/41/2/essay/DavisVol41No2_Dear.pdf
https://www.wikizero.com/en/Supreme_Court_of_California#cite_note-36
CALIFORNIA PROVIDES THE LIBERAL PUSH TO GET THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO PASS VERY EXTREMELY LIBERAL LAWS:
CA is 18% or 1/5 of the most liberals members of Congress
It has two times the amount of liberals as NY provides
Four times as many liberals as Illinois, Massachusetts, or New Jersey
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/report-cards/2017/house/ideology
IT IS NOT TRUMP - DESPITE WHAT LIBERAL NEWS TELLS YOU.
CONGRESS HAS NOT FUNCTIONED FOR A DECADE, WHICH MEANS IT IS THE SYSTEM PROBLEM
":We just finished one of the least productive sessions in American history." - 2015 Atlantic Magazine
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/01/50-years-ago-americans-fired-their-dysfunctional-congress/384688/
“Democrat Barack Obama was president during the more recent 112th Congress.This Congress arguably exhibited the most intransigent partisan divisions of the post-war period.”
“Following the Republican midterm sweep in 2010, Democrats held a 53 (including independents who caucused with Democrats) to 47 majority in the Senate, but trailed Republicans by 49 seats in the House.This Congress arguably exhibited the most intransigent partisan divisions of the post-war period.”
http://theconversation.com/congress-used-to-pass-bipartisan-legislation-will-it-ever-again-107134
"This isn't the first time a divided Congress has passed fewer measures at this point in the year. From January to late May 2013, when Republicans controlled the House and Democrats the Senate, congressional lawmakers passed 11 laws. Similarly, from January through May in 2011, a Republican-controlled House and Democratic-controlled Senate passed 16 laws, according to congressional records."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/halfway-year-congress-passed-17-laws/story?id=63258594
CALIFORNIA LOVES OBAMA AND HIS LAWS
https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/harris-california-loves-barack-obama-44200003617
https://www.pe.com/2016/02/12/president-obama-california-a-frequent-stop-for-fundraiser-in-chief/
KAMALA HARRIS JOKED ABOUT KILLING A PRESIDENT
The conversation took an edgier turn when Degeneres asked Harris: "If you had to be stuck in an elevator with either President Trump, Mike Pence or Jeff Sessions who would it be?"
"Does one of us have to come out alive?" Harris asked, to a roar of cheering from the audience. Even Degeneres applauded the senator's wit.
https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/senator-kamala-harris-ellen-degeneres-trump-pence-12809674.php
SUPPORT FOR CALEXIT
•Stanford Jan 2017–27%
• Not sure — 19%
• Californians not opposed to discussing Calexit 46%
• http://news.stanford.edu/2017/01/19/hoover-golden-state-poll-californians-arent-fond-trump-agenda-arent-interested-seceding-u-s/
•http://www.hoover.org/sites/default/files/hoover_gsp_january_2017_results_01112017.pdf
• Reuters Jan 2017–32%
• Don’t know — 15.5%
• Californians not opposed to a discussion on secession
• 47.5%
• http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-california-secession-idUSKBN1572KB
• https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/2017-03/CA%20Topline%207552.pdf
• https://www.gq.com/story/california-secession-movement
From: Marcus Ruiz Evans <marcus.ruiz.evans@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 11:32 AM
Subject: Re: About Reuters/Ipsos poll: 32% of CA — could I see “don’t know” %
To: Erin Morris <Erin.Morris@ipsos.com>
Cc: chris.jackson@ipsos.com, chris.kahn@thomsonreuters.com
Thank you for the quick response
It’s fascinating to know that the well-publicized poll in the news that 32% of Californians support Independence ALSO shows that 47.5% are at least not directly opposed to Independence..they “don’t know” if they are against it.
On Mar 2, 2017 6:46 AM, “Erin Morris” <Erin.Morris@ipsos.com> wrote:
Marcus, Chris Jackson forwarded me your question about the ‘don’t know’ percent from our California data. I’ve copied that below. Let me know if you need anything else!
Don’t know — 15.5%
Best,
Erin
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It’s possible that 56.3% of CA was for secession
Red-StateSecession
"Although roughly half the committee's full-time staff (13 of 27) we... re nonwhite, this was not enough for some…
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Yet Reuters’ own tool shows that only 15% of the Californians polled in a January 2017 CALEXIT poll were Hispanic. Actually, Hispanics were 39% of California as of 2017.
Only 35% of Hispanic Californians in that poll were opposed to CALEXIT (California independence from the USA) but 41.3% were in favor and 24% expressed no opinion.
*********If Hispanics had been properly represented in the poll, only 43.6% of Californians polled would have opposed CALEXIT, and fully 33.3% would have been in favor. 23% would not have given an opinion. [THAT MEANS 56.3% OR A MAJORITY OF CALIFORNIA WOULD BE FOR SECESSION]****
The reliance of pollsters on land lines means that the kind of people who have land lines are over-represented in polls. These are people who move less often and older people. Since poll data shows that younger and less wealthy people are more likely to favor secession, this means that the true percentage of Californians who oppose CALEXIT is probably significantly lower than polls show, even within each race.
In this poll, the percentage of each group opposed to CALEXIT were: Black 39.7%, Asian 46.4%, other races 9.1%, White 55.5%, Hispanic 35.1%, and those who declined to give their race 37.1%.
http://www.gq.com/story/california-secession-movement
AMERICAN LAW INTERPRETATION IS BASED ON PLAIN LANGUAGE
“Any question of statutory interpretation begins with looking at the plain language of the statute to discover its original intent. To discover a statute's original intent, courts first look to the words of the statute and apply their usual and ordinary meanings.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/statutory_construction
“The plain language rule in American jurisprudence is at times attributed to William Blackstone” from the late 1700s – about a century before the Texas V White ruling.
https://scholarship.law.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2312&context=mlr
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERALS HAVE APPROVED OF TEXAS V WHITE AND MULTIPLE CALIFORNIA PROFESSORS OF LAW
“U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that the initial act admitting a state to the Union “was final.” “There was no place for reconsideration, or revocation,” the court said, “except through revolution, or through consent of the states.” — California Attorney General Becerra (2018), Kenealy (2017), Harris (2015)
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2816-0011%29_0.pdf
http://www.lao.ca.gov/BallotAnalysis/Initiative/2017-005
https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/initiatives/pdfs/fiscal-impact-estimate-report%2815-0037%29_0.pdf
Daniel Farber — Professor UC Berkelely, School of law
Wanna get away? Calexit secession plan possible, but faces huge hurdles by Taryn Luna December 01, 2016
“Daniel Farber, a law professor at UC Berkeley, pointed to a Supreme Court decision, Texas v. White, in 1869 that said Texas “entered into an indissoluble relation” when it became part of the United States. The case related to bonds sold by Texas during the Civil War. The Supreme Court ruling determined “the Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union composed of indestructible States.” Texas could only revoke its inclusion in the union “through revolution or through consent of the States,” the court ruled.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/nation-world/national/article118162903.html
Stephen M. Duvernay — Lawyer and senior research fellow at California constitution center — UC Berkeley Constitution center
CalExit: Good Luck With That November 13 2016
“The secessionists concede that states cannot unilaterally secede from the Union. Instead, they focus on this bit in White as not ruling out that it could be done: “There was no place for reconsideration or revocation, except through revolution or through consent of the States.””
http://scocablog.com/calexit-good-luck-with-that/
Stephen J. Kaufman & George M. Yin — lawyers at Kaufman legal group, which specializes in politics and government
Calexit and the Constitution 3/7/2017
“However, the second part of the statement, “consent of the states,” suggests that secession might be accomplished by an amendment to the U.S. Constitution pursuant to Article V, whereby amendments may be proposed either by Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House and the Senate or by a convention of states called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. To then become part of the Constitution, however, an amendment must be ratified by either — as determined by Congress — the legislatures of three quarters of the states or state ratifying conventions in three quarters of the states. In short, this is no easy task.”
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/kaufman-legal-group-named-top-boutique-today-by-daily-journal-300542134.html
http://www.kaufmanlegalgroup.com/files/news_20170307_ladj.pdf
CALIFORNIA DEANS SAY THAT CONGRESS COULD VOTE CALIFORNIA OUT WITH MAJORITY
Californians would not have to get 2/3rds of Congress to approve - as with a constitutional amendment.
"In theory, because it was a majority vote of Congress to admit California, in theory a majority vote of Congress could approve secession."
Erwin Chemerinsky, founding dean UC Irvine Law school
http://www.gq.com/story/california-secession-movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Chemerinsky
DEAN of Berkeley Law
Created Irvine Law school
https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at the UC Berkeley’s law school.
Admits that Texas v White is a legal decision on secession and that it does include the phrase you can legally secede “through consent of the states”
“Texas v. White held that states cannot secede, and that decision’s off-hand comment about the states consenting probably refers to the constitutional amendment procedure.”
https://www.pe.com/2018/08/31/a-nation-within-a-nation-latest-version-of-california-succession-plan-touches-native-americans/
THE LIBERAL NEWS SAYS THAT YOU WILL NEED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO SECEDE FROM AMERICA AND THAT WILL BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE
“according to David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at UC Berkeley’s law school… “Texas v. White held that states cannot secede, and that decision’s off-hand comment about the states consenting probably refers to the constitutional amendment procedure.” “No state has ever successfully seceded, and Yes California faces daunting obstacles to become the first.”
https://www.dailydemocrat.com/2018/09/04/new-version-of-california-secession-includes-area-for-first-nation-people/
“In any case, it is a long shot to get two-thirds of the House and Senate – not to mention legislatures from two-thirds of the states – to agree on anything, particularly the secession of the country's largest state, economically speaking.”
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/calexit.asp
“Secession would require a US Constitutional amendment approved by two-thirds majorities in the US House of Representatives and Senate …Analysts consider California's secession improbable”
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/california-today-secession-trump.html?_r=0
“That leaves two paths, according to Nicoletti. "You're going to need a constitutional amendment or you're going to need a revolution,"
A state can pass a constitutional amendment that legalizes secession with a vote from three-fourths of the other 49 states. However, Fusion pointed out that amending the Constitution "is a feat difficult enough that it has happened only 17 times in 227 years."”
https://www.businessinsider.com/calexit-california-versus-texas-texit-2017-2
CALIFORNIANS THINK AMERICA WANTS CALIFORNIA TO BE A SAVIOR FOR AMERICA
Gavin Newsom said California needs to fight for America November 21 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPtsFwypGvM
Lt. Governor of California said on 6/27/2019 in front of Democrat debate "hopes that someone like Kamala Harris will bring some California style policies to the national stage."
https://ussanews.com/News1/2019/06/27/lieutenant-governor-of-california-hopes-to-see-california-policies-in-the-whitehouse/
THEY TOOK THE VIDEO DOWN – BUT HERE IS THE DATA SHOWING IT EXISTS:
SF weekly said that California should save America
http://www.sfweekly.com/news/how-california-could-help-save-america-on-nov-6/amp/
REPUBLICANS ARE INDEPENDENT VOTERS
https://news.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx
“It's important to remember that identifying with a party is not the same as voting for that party.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/independent-voters-are-not-free-from-party-influence-2018-10
“However, the three-point increase in the proportion of independents in 2017 is larger than what Gallup typically has seen in the year after a presidential election.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/225056/americans-identification-independents-back-2017.aspx
"The profile of the typical independent voter “suggests they should be walking into the arms of the Democratic Party,” Mitchell said. “We should be seeing growth of the Democratic Party; yet the Democrats are treading water in terms of registration.”
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Republicans-are-now-a-third-party-in-12961604.php
"while Republican voter registration has declined since 1994 (from 37 to 25 percent), the percentage of registered Democrats has fallen as well (from 49 to 44 percent). The Democratic decline is not as steep as the Republican decline, but there has been no stampede of horrified voters into the arms of the Democratic party."
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/why-gop-declined-in-california/
SUPREME COURT SUPPORTS STATE’S RIGHTS
https://www.law.com/newyorklawjournal/2019/06/19/hall-no-supreme-court-overturns-nevada-v-hall-and-holds-states-are-immune-from-suits-in-courts-of-sister-states/
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2019/07/03/supreme-court-destroyed-baker-v-carr-redistricting-decision/1623701001
Hardcore conservative Supreme Court supports states rights over there popular conservative opinions.. Guess how they're going to vote on secession
https://mises.org/power-market/scotus-right-not-overturn-californias-gun-waiting-period
SUPREME COURT IS CONSERVATIVE AND IS WILLING TO MAKE RADICAL DEPARTURES FROM PREVIOUS UNDERSTANDING
Did you see where the news said that the now radically conservative Supreme Court is quickly overturning major laws that have been supporting and ensuring our rights for the last 40 years
"The Supreme Court’s conservative majority overturned a 40-year-old precedent Monday, prompting a pointed warning from liberal justices about “which cases the court will overrule next.”"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-courts-conservatives-overturn-precedent-as-liberals-ask-which-cases-the-court-will-overrule-next/2019/05/13/b4d3c4f8-7595-11e9-bd25-c989555e7766_story.html
IF CALIFORNIA WAS REMOVED - ITS SEATS WOULD GO TO THE NEXT MOST POPULOUS STATES. OF THE 10 MOST POPULOUS STATES - 70% ARE COMPETITIVE.
“The consensus (as of 07/04/19) is that there will be seventeen competitive states: Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_state
California is the largest state in America.
The next 10 states after CA, by size are, Texas, Florida, New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan, New Jersey
These states would get Californians House of Representatives seats.
70% of these states are swing states - meaning the overwhelming majority would restore real chance
http://worldpopulationreview.com/states/
SWING STATE & BIG BIGGEST POP = gain seat
1 Texas, Texas
2 Florida, Florida
3 New York
4 Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania
5 Illinois
6 Ohio, Ohio
7 Georgia, Georgia
8 North Carolina, North Carolina
9 Michigan, Michigan
10 New Jersey
In 2018, Republicans were the minority in the House, and in 2016, but it wasn’t always like this at all.
44.8% - 2018
49.1% - 2016
51.2% - 2014
53.8% - 2012
51.7% - 2010
42.6%- 2008
51.5% -1994
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections
RECENT EXAMPLE OF BAD THINGS COMING
"Lawmakers who brought California's proposal to their home states "ran into questions about how this law played out in California, and there weren’t answers on that,” Tsukayama said."
"“It’s not totally a great model to use in other states,”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/california-data-privacy-law-may-become-the-model-for-congress