Hello friends. Welcome. Welcome to this most special episode which is about a question that I have been asked many many times and what people want to know is can Texas succeed from the union?

I have four reasons why they cannot succeed and then a couple of other points to

consider reasons that demonstrate they don't actually really want. and then a couple of other points to consider

reasons that demonstrate they don't actually really want to succeed.

So let's get into it.

Let's get into why Texas can't succeed.

I'm Sharon McMahon. And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.

This notion that Texas or frankly any state can succeed is something that continues to come up over and over both on my

Instagram account in discussions in the media and so I just thought it warranted a

little bit of a deeper dive a little bit more of a discussion

into the actual legalities of a state wanting to leave the union.

So let's establish one thing first, which is that we have the United States Constitution which is the

Supreme Law of the land there is something in the Constitution called the

supremacy class article six specifically says this Constitution This

article six specifically says this Constitution shall be the supreme law of the land and so that means that every state must abide by the United States Constitution.

There are no states that have special privileges where they get to

override portions of the U.S. Constitution, not Texas, not Idaho, not Maine, no other states in addition the Texas Constitution which by the way I read in its entirety it's a long one it is one of the longest

constitutions in the country. The Texas Constitution says at the very beginning,

Texas is a free and independent state subject only to the Constitution of the United States.

So you have both the federal government via the US Constitution

asserting their rights as the Supreme Law of the Land

and you also have front and center Texas saying

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