It would create an official commission to study California's viability as an independent nation. "It doesn't make secession automatically happen. You can't do that. That's illegal," Ruiz Evans said.

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California is not only the most populous state ... Ruiz Evans, who has been angling for secession since 2012, is a staunch Donald Trump opponent, unlike his former partner in the effort, who ...

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In other words, California’s progressive government is one part healthy federalism and one part unhealthy separatism. If (and this is a big if) the state can temper its soft secession ...

Threatening secession is far from the only thing that the Golden State has in common with the Old South. Over 60 percent of California voters went for Hillary Clinton — a margin of more than 4 ...

So when President Donald Trump threatened to put conditions on disaster aid in the wake of California’s unprecedented January firestorms, there was a reaction. Email Thomas Elias at [email protected].

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The United States was born out of secession. Like in 1860, secession debates rage from sea to shining sea throughout the American Republic. The latest can be found in rural southern Illinois.