On Monday, Allen West, the chairman of the Texas Republican Party, clarified accusations that he had divided the country and said attention should turn to the four states named in the Texas lawsuit as defendants, whose officials were tearing the country apart.
Mr West released a statement on Friday after the Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit from Texas challenging the results of four swing states. Noting that the Supreme Court’s decision sets a precedent that states can violate the United States Constitution without accountability, the statement said the decision will have far-reaching implications for the future of the constitutional republic, and suggested that law-abiding states should unite to form a union of states that abide by the Constitution.
Mr West’s comments upset the left, with some accusing him of dividing the country. Mr. West responded. He said his words never mentioned secession, and that the real secessionists were states that illegally changed their electoral laws before the election.
Mr West challenged his critics: “I have to ask a simple question: when does it become wrong to obey the law and demand that others do the same? When did we become so partisan, even ignorant and incompetent, that we accepted the notion that a constitutionally law-abiding union of states was sedition? But a domestic terrorist group like Antifa, or an illegal change of electoral laws to the detriment of other states, is not a mutinies?”
West says he stands by his original statement that the Supreme Court’s decision in the Texas case was bad for democracy.
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, the republican vice-presidential candidate in 2008, called the judges who dismissed allegations of election fraud by Mr Trump and his Allies “sheep”. In an interview with Newsmax’s “Stinchfield” on Tuesday, Palin said: “It’s puzzling what we’re seeing is a lack of courage. This is tragic for our country. We did see so many sheep.”
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