If I were governor Abbot of Texas, I would answer - The United States Constitution- and then walk out.
Outside very limited scope regarding elections (not denying the right for race, sex, etc), the Federal Government has no jurisdiction over this and is asking for a massive amount of data they have no right to have. The data the Federal government has a right to have is public data they can get any time.
If the Federal Government tries to declare that a power which is Constitutionally mandated to the States is treason and a capital crime, as you suggest, you are already in deep crap....
I don't think you really understood what I was saying. I did not say that the States
had to honor the request for information. I agree with you that they did not have to honor the request.
On the other hand, I think you are simply wrong in your opinion of Texas Governor Gregg Abbott. Maybe I'm the one who's wrong, but I suspect that Abbott would have instructed the State's Executive Branch to produce whatever Texas voter fraud data they have, if any. (I'll bet they have already gone through the records and come up with at least a preliminary assessment of any such fraud problem in Texas--which would help to expedite any Federal studies of this
national problem.)
I frankly assume that Governor Abbott would realize that Federalism does
not mean that the States must (or even should) flatly refuse to cooperate with the Feds unless the Constitution
forces them to cooperate. "States' Rights" is not the pivotal issue in this particular case--except insofar as the Feds and the Courts have [under Obama] repeatedly
blocked proper State-level remedies for this monumentally serious problem! In the case of the data request, I would even go so far as to opine that the Governor of
Texas would be pretty solidly on the side of the Feds, of course. Texas as a whole wants to
stop the voter fraud that has been going on
all over the nation--and therefore would be pleased to assist the Feds in what will likely prove to be a major national initiative by Trump's administration and a Republican Congress. This initiative by Trump will require a reversal of the
anti-Constitutional--and anti-
Covenantal--stance taken by Obama's administration.
My bottom-line point is that an amicable relationship between the Feds and the States is important for our covenantal (federal) government to work very well. That is especially obvious when our crooked Federal courts and crooked Federal DOJ and crooked Dem politicos at the national level have tried to use ballot-stuffing (a la Alinskyism and Leninism) to
STEAL FEDERAL ELECTIONS. (Next, notice that all three of the States that have refused to provide the requested data are Blue States--with Democrat governors that are not known for being devotees of Original Federalism! They are elite Socialists who don't give a fig for States Rights--or for honest rule by law, considered more generally. in my opinion.)
Under the circumstances of that perversely traitorous mess, all good States should
cooperate with the Feds' data collection effort. (The existing "data sets" are just a bunch of crap fed to the MSM to cover up a major conspiracy to destroy Constitutional republicanism.)
Even if the Executive Branch does not have the power to compel the data submittal, I submit that Congress does have that power if they will just bother to use it. The House Judiciary Committee needs to do diligent fact-finding to amass evidence of systematic voting fraud being covered up by crooked, partisan federal judges (or misinformed Judges) who should be Constitutionally stripped of their activist tendencies. Congress could then go on to proscribe Federal court jurisdiction over State laws that attempt to require voter IDs.
Yeah, I know that voter qualifications are under the jurisdiction of the individual states, but the Constitution never intended that today's Blue States give
de facto permission for
dead people to vote.
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On the issue of treason, perhaps I was being too nuanced in my earlier post. I submit that we are looking at a major Global Socialist (ACORN-centered) conspiracy to overthrow the lawful government of the United States by
federal-level election THEFT. (The fraud problems are not just isolated pockets of overly zealous partisans. These are the work of America-hating "Global thinkers acting locally" and under clandestine coordination with Soros
et al.)
Yeah, I do say we are talking about
treason. We manifestly need to hang some people. But we have to prove the conspiracy and figure out the identities of the conspirators. Red States should chip in their resources for that.
