PPT Rejects Core Texas GOP Principles: Calls on Fed to Reform Texas Family Law!

PPT Rejects Core Texas GOP Principles

Calls on Fed to Reform Texas Family Law!

By

James Scott Trimm

Protective Parents of Texas (PPT), an organization that has used dishonest of tactics in attacking various of our Tarrant County Family Court Judges (as seen in many of my most recent blogs), has begun a campaign calling upon the Federal Government to introduce “changes” and “reforms” to Texas Family Law.  In three 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.

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 does not have any power that the states have not specifically delegated to the federal government in the Constitution.  Nowhere in the Constitution do the states delegate to the Federal Government the power to regulate families and family law.  The rights of states to regulate family law issues is clearly an area of state sovereignty.

Our 2016 Texas Republican Party Platform states clearly::

State Sovereignty- Pursuant to Article 1 Section 1 of the Texas Constitution, the federal government has impaired our right of local self-government.  Therefore, federally mandated legislation, which infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas, should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Regulation of Commerce in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution has exceeded the original intent. All attempts by the federal judiciary to rule in areas not expressly enumerated by the Untied States Constitution should be likewise nullified. Any federal enforcement activities that do occur in Texas should be conducted under the authority of the county sheriff.

This plank received a yes vote from more than 89% of the convention delegates.

This plank is also an expression of our core party principles.  Our Texas Party Platform Preamble States “If we fail to maintain our sovereignty, we risk losing the freedom to live these ideals.”

And our 3rd and 4th Party Principles state:

3. Preserving American and Texas sovereignty and freedom.

4. Limiting government power to those items enumerated in the United States and Texas

Constitutions.

This 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 not only a violation of our Texas Republican Party Platform, but it even violates the core principles of the Texas Republican Party.  Any efforts by Congress, or any other branch of the Federal Government to regulate Texas Family Law would be unconstitutional!

Protective Parents of Texas has rejected the core principles of of the Texas Republican Party.