“If Texas says, “‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore’ … that’s their decision to make.”
What PolitiFact found
Constitutional law experts said the Civil War settled the issue of whether states can secede from the U.S. They cannot. The Supreme Court also ruled that states do not have the right to unilaterally secede.
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In short
Nikki Haley (Republican presidential candidate) made this claim around 31 January 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 5 February 2024, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Nikki Haley has 35 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 12 of them false or fake, 19 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/8JDyV4lHR68?feature=shared&t=2650
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