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Texas GOP wants to vote on whether to secede from US

21 June 2022 10:28 (UTC +04:00)

Texas Republicans want to hold a referendum on seceding from the United States, one of several extreme policies demands that delegates voted to adopt at the state party convention in Houston this weekend, APA reports citing the Independent.

The state GOP outlined its intention to press for such a referendum in a document from its Platforms and Resolutions committee, wherein it specified its demand that the state holds a vote on the matter. The document was produced in connection with the Texas Republican Party's convention in Houston, during which it also voted "overwhelmingly" to reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election.

The document, which contains a section on state sovereignty, calls for the state to hold a vote and outlines the Texas Republican Party's opinion that the federal government has "impaired" its right to locally self-govern.

Per the document, the Texas GOP proposed that any "federally mandated legislation that infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified."

"Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto," the document reads.

In the document, the Texas GOP also urged state lawmakers to bring a vote to the people of Texas "to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation." Per the state GOP's proposal, this vote would be on the ballot in 2023.

On top of its call for secession, the Texas GOP also asked for state lawmakers to look into prosecuting election fraud.

"We urge the passage of a constitutional amendment that gives the Texas Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to prosecute election fraud along with the county District Attorneys," the GOP's platform document read.