The bill, authored by far-right grandstander Texas Rep. Bryan Slaton, failed to receive a hearing or a vote when he filed it in 2021. Texas TexasRepublicans TEXIT Extremists RepublicanClownShow
Despite the filing of House Bill 3596, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1869 that no state could legally secede from the union.
"On this 187th anniversary of the fall of the Alamo, I'm proud to file this bill to let the people of Texas vote on the future of our state," Slaton Legal experts largely agree that Slaton's pipe dream of an independent Texas is just as absurd and also likely to end in failure.
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