Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, issued a warning on social media on Wednesday that a "national divorce" between red and blue states is imminent amid the "constitutional crisis" in the U.S.
Greene has been a vocal critic of the Biden administration's job on border security amid the influx of migrants from Mexico. Greene and other Republicans in Congress have been pushing for tougher immigration policy to combat what they call an "invasion" of migrants at the southern border.
"America is in a constitutional crisis," Greene wrote Wednesday on X, formerly Twitter. "The admin is enabling a full scale border invasion and harboring illegal migrants. The courts are engaging in judicial tyranny. The government is politically weaponized against the people. Soon national divorce may be our only option."
Newsweek reached out to Greene's office via email for comment.
Greene's post came after the Colorado Supreme Court ruled in a 4-3 decision that former President Donald Trump, who is the front-runner for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, will be barred from the state's ballot. The court found that Trump incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021, and that under the 14th Amendment, he would be banned from holding public office.
On January 6, 2021, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. while Congress was attempting to certify Joe Biden's 2020 win. A riot followed after Trump gave his "Stop the Steal" speech in which he alleged that the election had been stolen from him via widespread voter fraud.
Greene slammed the Colorado Supreme Court's decision Tuesday on X.
"The Democrats and 4 Colorado judges just stole the election away from the people of Colorado and robbed them of their right to vote for President Trump," Greene wrote. "This is an unprecedented First amendment violation that must be struck down by the SCOTUS. This can not be allowed to stand."
Wednesday's post was not the first time Greene has mentioned the idea of a "national divorce" between red and blue states.
In February, Greene argued that the country should "separate our ideological and political disagreements by states" while "maintaining our legal union," in a 13-tweet thread on X.
She suggested that the divorce would better serve America as it would allow for a shift in focus from the Democratic administration's interest in helping Ukraine fight Russia to Republicans' domestic concerns about the southern border.
"In a National Divorce, our Department of Defense would defend America's borders not be on the verge of WWIII with Russia and China because our overly powerful federal warlords serve Ukraine first," Greene said in a follow-up post in February.
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