After Nikki Haley announced her campaign for president yesterday, video footage was released from a previous run in 2010 where she told a pro-Confederate group that states have the right to secede from the union. Via the Guardian:
“I think that they do,” Haley said in the footage, which Patriot Takes, an anonymously run social media account and fundraising Pac which claims to “monitor and expos[e] rightwing extremism and other threats to democracy”, said came from 2010 and featured an unnamed neo-Confederate group.
“I mean, the constitution says that.”
[...] Anthony Michael Kreis, a law professor and political scientist at Georgia State University, said on Twitter: “No, Nikki Haley, the constitution does not provide a right for secession. See Texas v White (1869). See also, the civil war.”
Not a deep thinker, our Nikki. Or she's willing to pander to extremists. Maybe both!
