Jon Stewart had Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on his show last night. Perry has been known to contemplate Texas’s secession from the union, as recently as last week advocating for Texas to be allowed to secede from Social Security. So Stewart asked him: “Would you like to see, at some level, Texas as its own country? A little bit? A little bit? United Republic of Texas?” Perry replied: “No.”
The two also discussed the Supreme Court and “activist judges.” Perry said: “We’ve got four Supreme Court Justices who are —-” Jon interrupted: “That you don’t agree with.” Perry replied: “That I don’t agree with” — then caught himself: “No!”
“We’ve got four that I think don’t adhere to the Constitution,” Perry said. Jon shot back: “So you believe the Constitution is that which the federal government can do that you agree with? In some respects? A little bit?”
“A little bit,” Perry agreed.
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Jillian Rayfield is a Reporter/Blogger for TPM, and started as a News Intern in May 2009. She graduated from Cornell University in May 2008 with a degree in Film, and worked as a Research Assistant for a market research firm in London in between.
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