[U: Hinderaker Advocates For… Insurrection] In Which Gov. Abbott Writes A Quite Silly — And Sad — Letter. Thinks He Is The Final Arbiter Of The US Constitution. He Is Not.

Updated 01.25.2024 @ 9 pm EST: Now Hinderaker openly suggests a final US Supreme Court order has no force or effect. He writes “The battle has been joined. Let’s fight it out….” And three paragraphs above that, he admits that the Supreme Court has decided “the feds are in control“.

In my opinion, his language veers dangerously close to… “fight like hell!” on J6. There, the Veep was already certifying a final election result, as the Tangerine Dotard urged a mob to hang him. Here, Hinderaker, and the Red MAGA Governors, are urging defiance of the Supremes. There is no other way to read his. [Shades of Gov. George Wallace, in Alabama, anyone?] Charming. He (and earlier, Steve): insurrectionists now. End update.

[Original Dateline: 01.24.2024 @ 5 pm EST:] Stevie Hayward just posted Texas Gov. Abbott’s “MAGA insurrectionist’s manifesto” letter of today.

It is all sad beyond words — in the level of misunderstanding (in his head) about how our system of ordered liberty — and federalism… works.

Mr. Abbott seems (like Tangerine, before him) unable to grasp that, after Marbury v. Madison (i.e., for over two centuries now), when the United States Supreme Court rules on a matter of federal law… that answer is both final, and definitive. Unless and until the Congress changes the law… Gov. Abbott is sworn by oath to uphold and defend the Supremes’ ruling here.

That he does not do, today. He threatens a Gov. Geo. Wallace moment — then at the University of Alabama doors — now, in Shelby Park, Texas.

He may find his men under… arrest, and charged with obstruction. But you know both he and AG Paxton are too big a pair of cowards, to be there in person. To be sure, though, they may be charged (just like Tangerine was, after J6), after the fact — if his Rangers impede the DHS or the CBP agents, in any manner now.

Out. What a bunch of putzes.