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           "What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what   
   will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun," King Solomon   
   famously observed in the Koheleth (Book of Ecclesiastes). Truer words have   
   never been written. Look no further than the present anarchic tumult in   
   Minnesota.   
      
           On Jan. 12, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison initiated a   
   lawsuit on behalf of the North Star State, along with municipal co-   
   plaintiffs Minneapolis and St. Paul, against Homeland Security Secretary   
   Kristi Noem, Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Todd   
   Lyons and the rest of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement   
   apparatus. In his press conference announcing the suit, Ellison emphasized   
   the same basic arguments as his formal complaint: Namely, that ICE's   
   enforcement "surge" in Minnesota amounts to a "violation of the Tenth   
   Amendment and the sovereign laws and powers granted to states."   
      
           In essence, Ellison and his Minnesota's Democratic Party   
   leadership confreres argue that the constitutional federalism articulated   
   in the Tenth Amendment and its corollary of "states' rights" can shield   
   the Land of 10,000 Lakes from the long enforcement arm of federal   
   immigration law. Ellison and Minnesota Democrats claim that by declaring   
   their state and cities to be illegal alien "sanctuaries," they can   
   "nullify" federal immigration law. Stop me if you've heard that one   
   before.   
      
           Democrats in America have a long and inglorious history of   
   invoking "states' rights" and shirking federal law. It has never ended   
   well.   
      
           In 1798 and 1799, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison -- members of   
   the Democratic-Republican Party, the partisan predecessor to today's   
   Democratic Party -- penned the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions. The   
   Resolutions, a direct response to the controversial Alien and Sedition   
   Acts championed by President John Adams, argued that when Congress passes   
   an unconstitutional statute, the states are permitted to declare the law   
   null and void within their own jurisdictions. According to this argument,   
   if a state's constitutional officers deem a federal law to be   
   unconstitutional, the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution -   
   - which normally establishes federal law as "the supreme law of the land"   
   over state law -- simply does not apply.   
      
           This sentiment was taken to its logical conclusion during the   
   antebellum period. During the nullification crisis of 1832-33, South   
   Carolina passed the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring the Tariffs of   
   1828 and 1832 to be unconstitutional and unenforceable in the Palmetto   
   State. South Carolina even took initial steps to organize the militia, in   
   anticipation of attempted federal mobilization. In ensuing decades, South   
   Carolinian John C. Calhoun emerged as the most passionate advocate for   
   state nullification. Calhoun argued not only for a state's "right" to   
   nullify federal law but also to secede from the Union, if necessary, to   
   secure its sovereignty. The result was the 1861 attack on Fort Sumter and   
   the 600,000-plus slain in the Civil War.   
      
           For nearly a century after the Civil War, Calhoun's ghost   
   lingered. As the civil rights movement gained steam, segregationists   
   invoked nullification and "states' rights" as justifications for defying   
   federally mandated civil rights. The Southern Manifesto, signed by dozens   
   of U.S. senators and congressmen in 1956, took the position that the Tenth   
   Amendment permitted states to defy the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of   
   Education desegregation decision of 1954. In the Little Rock Crisis of   
   1957, Gov. Orval Faubus relied on the same principles when he ordered the   
   Arkansas National Guard to block Black students from attending Little Rock   
   Central High School. Faubus lost his showdown when President Dwight D.   
   Eisenhower sent in the 101st Airborne Division to forcibly desegregate   
   Little Rock.   
      
           In echoing the discredited theories of yesteryear, Ellison,   
   Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-   
   Minn.), and the rest of the state's top Democratic brass have emerged as   
   modern reincarnations of Jefferson Davis and George Wallace. They wouldn't   
   see it that way, naturally. Nor would Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown   
   Jackson recognize that her own "race-infused worldview" and belief in   
   "racial determinism," as Justice Clarence Thomas accused her of harboring   
   in his Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (2023) concurrence, is an   
   updated version of Calhoun's vile life outlook. But that's precisely what   
   it is.   
      
           On Thursday, Trump border czar Tom Homan announced that the   
   administration is prepared to draw down federal personnel in Minnesota if   
   the state cooperates. We'll see if that transpires, but I have my   
   suspicions. Historically, Democratic Party subversives and   
   insurrectionists have not been known for their cooperation with the feds.   
   The good news for President Donald Trump is that he has a clear legal   
   precedent for how to respond, if the neo-Confederate uprising in Minnesota   
   continues apace. On April 15, 1861, in response to the attack on Fort   
   Sumter three days prior, President Abraham Lincoln invoked the   
   Insurrection Act of 1807. Trump has recently been musing about doing the   
   same.   
      
           Will Trump pull the trigger? Maybe. After all, there's nothing new   
   under the sun.   
      
   https://hotair.com/josh-hammer/2026/02/01/the-rise-of-the-new-confederacy-   
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   No case.  Ellison is a racist oxygen thief and saboteur of equal rights.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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