Bethany Blankley, Just the News: Texas AG Paxton won’t issue legal opinion on invasion
Jonathan Hullihan, an officer in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and a leading authority in international and national security law, told The Center Square that he “respectfully disagrees” with Webster’s “conclusory and shortsighted opinion.”
Texas has a constitutionally granted legal right to declare and repel an invasion from non-state actors, he said. For Webster to suggest that declaring an invasion requires “a foreign uniformed entity” indicates that he has a misunderstanding of the law, Hullihan added.
It’s also well-documented that the Mexican cartels are engaging in nontraditional warfare and aren’t operating independently from the Mexican government, according to numerous reports by U.S. intelligence agencies.
“As a uniformed lawyer in the Navy JAGC that spent most of my career in Operational Law, International Law, and National Security law, often the most complex facts and legal analysis relate to distinguishing, targeting, and use of force against non-state actors. To this point, the southern border is not simply an immigration and naturalization issue, but rather an issue of national and state security,” Hullihan said.
“The state of Texas has a right and an obligation to act within the framework of the Constitution to protect its citizens from the destabilizing effects of the non-state actors, transnational criminal organizations, and the dramatic escalation of narco-terrorism that is exported and operating freely into the United States.”
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