Senator Ted Cruz's latest pitch is consistent with his history of tossing raw, contaminated red meat into the crowd, from calling for a government shutdown to playing chicken with the national debt ceiling.
The Republican presidential candidate told a group of supporters in Alabama that states should impose their own sanctions against Iran.
The Republican presidential candidate from Texas was asked at a raucous town hall-style forum here about the prospects of states taking action to impose sanctions on the money the Obama administration has agreed to release as part of the deal regarding the country’s nuclear development.
“I think that states should act and lead to do exactly that,” Cruz said.
I can only assume that Ted Cruz would not appreciate it if his administration's policy was undermined by liberal states who pursued their own agenda at the expense of the United States and the idea of national sovereignty itself.
It seems incredibly unlikely to me that doing so would even be legal under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution which establishes that federal statutes and treaties are "the supreme law of the land."
The idea is so fucking preposterous it could only come from the mouth of an unhinged insurrectionist like Ted Cruz and his batshit supporters.