The (Constitutional) Crisis at the Border

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Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Texas passed a law that allows it to police the US border with Mexico without regard to federal policy. That may seem like a little oopsy but actually it's a big "fuck you."

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0:00.0	Texas? You know of course that you're out of your jurisdiction.
0:03.2	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prolog Projects.
0:11.2	On this episode of 5-4, the hosts are talking about Texas.
0:15.0	That's because a new Texas state law, if allowed to go into effect, would create a new crime,
0:21.0	being in the U.S. illegally. It may seem like that's already a crime, but
0:26.5	SB 4 would make it a crime at the state level, which is unusual because states aren't in charge of who gets to enter and live in the US.
0:36.5	The federal government is.
0:38.1	Constitutionally, it would seem that Texas doesn't have a leg to stand on.
0:42.2	Immigration has long been firmly established as the
0:44.9	province of the federal government. But Texas has gone ahead and tried to implement
0:49.3	SB4 anyway, and it doesn't look like the Supreme Court has any plans to stop it.
0:54.9	This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
0:59.1	Welcome to 5 to 4 where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have
1:06.7	failed our nation like the Royal Families PR team failed Kate Middleton.
1:10.3	Wow. This is the dichotomy by the way either I can give you a metaphor that's about a two and a half week old news item
1:21.0	Right or I can just tell you what's bothering me right now, like at this very moment. Like,
1:26.7	the cases that have hurt us, like my tummy's hurting right now. That's the other option.
1:32.4	It's the Rianen's sensitive boys theme right? Yeah we could do that or or Kate Middleton. Right. I'm Peter. I'm here with Rianen. Hi hello. No Michael today. He said you know what you guys got this and he was right. Yeah. We do. He did send a photo to try to show us that he's okay, but is clearly Photoshop.
1:57.0	Yeah, very blurry.
1:59.0	So today's episode is about the hottest constitutional crisis in the country right now.
2:05.0	The, well, maybe the second hottest, you got the Trump one too.
2:09.0	Oh, there are so many constitutional crises.
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