TFM to Fight Federalization of Texas Family
Law
By
James Scott Trimm
A groups known as Protective Parents of
Texas has begun a campaign calling upon the Federal Government to introduce
“changes” and “reforms” to Texas Family Law.
PPT is an organization co-founded and run
by Jennifer
Olson. In a recent article I
documented that Jennifer Olson, who is a family violence activist, was
herself arrested just last year for family violence. This organization has made claims in its
many attacks on judges that I have shown to be factually incorrect. I have also
exposed their blatantly dishonest
audio edits. Olson’s close associate in the PPT is Marie Howard who leads The Boiling Point Tea Party, which has been called a “fake Tea Party” by Northeast
Tarrant County Tea Party leader Julie McCarty.
Howard is infamous for her recent opposition to the Tarrant County
Republican Party’s resolution calling for Texas House Speaker Joe Straus to be
replaced. She and Jennifer Olson staged a “walk out” on the vote, but failed to
prevent its passage.
In recent posts, PPT has encouraged its
readers to contact their Federal legislators to ask the Federal Government to
supersede the rights of Texans to govern our own state and intervene in
legislating Texas Family Law:
Moreover PPT is organizing its advocates
for a future march on Washington D.C. to advocate for this Federal intervention
in Texas Family Law:
When recently challenged on this issue, PPT
dug its heels in and made its position clear, saying: “Some say this is not a
Federal Problem, we disagree.”:
Federalization of Texas Family law would be
a blatant violation of the Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution. The Tenth Amendment to the US Constitution
reads:
The powers not delegated to the United
States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to
the States respectively, or to the people
This means that the federal government (the
Supreme Court included) does not have any power that the states have not specifically
delegated to the federal government in the Constitution. No where in the Constitution do the states
delegate to the Federal Government the power to regulate Family Law.
As James Madison, the father of the US
Constitution, and author of the Bill of Rights wrote:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the
federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State
governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised
principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign
commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be
connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the
objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties,
and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and
prosperity of the State.
(James Madison; Federalist Paper 45)
Moreover Thomas Jefferson, the primary
author of the Declaration of Independence wrote:
"That the several states composing the
United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited
submission to their general government; but that, by compact, under the style
and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto,
they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that
government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the
residuary mass of right to their own self-government; …
(Thomas Jefferson; Kentucky Resolution
1798)
This is reinforced in the Texas State
Constitution which says:
Texas is a free and independent State,
subject only to the Constitution of the United States, and the maintenance of
our free institutions and the perpetuity of the Union depend upon the
preservation of the right of local self-government, unimpaired to all the
States.
(Texas Constitution; Article 1 Section 1)
This new campaign by PPT to encourage the
Federal Legislature (or any other
branch of the Federal Government) to intervene in areas of Texas Family Law is a violation of the US Constitution itself, as well as the Texas State Constitution. Any efforts by Congress, or any other branch
of the Federal Government to regulate Texas Family Law would be
unconstitutional!
Tarrant Families Matter, an organization
standing up for the American Family and Parental rights in Texas, has recently
announced a campaign to stand up against this unconstitutional effort to
Federalize Texas Family Law:
To get involved and help support Tarrant
Families Matter’s fight to protect the rights of Texans to govern ourselves in
matters of Family Law, visit their website:
This is a worthy cause. The last thing Texas Families need is for
Texas Family law to become Federalized!
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