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Friday, December 11, 2015

SHERIFFS CALL FOR AN ARMED CITIZENRY TO COMBAT CRIME & TERRORISM~REMIND OBAMA & HIS ENABLERS ABOUT THE SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS FOR SELF DEFENSE

TOP COPS CALL FOR AN ARMED CITIZENRY TO COMBAT CRIME & TERRORISM 
SHERIFF RANDY KENNEDY CALLS FOR CITIZENS TO ARM THEMSELVES; TELLS OBAMA "YOU'RE NOT OUR POTENTATE":

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey, Be Ready And Be Armed For An Active Shooter Incidents.
Published on Dec 7, 2015
Some very wise suggestions from a Law Enforcement Leader who get's it. Sheriff Ivey while not stepping into politics steps away from those who march lockstep in the effort to disarm and render defenseless law abiding citizens. It's telling to note this man's honesty and understanding when he refers to himself as an armed citizen.


Sheriff Arpaio Calls For 250,000 Armed Citizens 
To Take Action

Published on Dec 4, 2015
Sheriff Arpaio on Monday, during the launch of his 22nd annual Mall Posse, requested that armed citizens, both permitted and not, take action during a mass terrorism/violent incident. This comment was reemphasized on Wednesday, when the San Bernardino incident occurred. Today, Sheriff Arpaio is restating his request and thanking those Politicians and Law Enforcement officials who have joined his stance.


BY C. MITCHELL SHAW
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

After militant Islamists killed 14 people in San Bernardino, some sheriffs and police chiefs are defying the party line and calling on citizens to arm themselves. Law enforcement's typical message is, "Call the police. Let the professionals handle things." But now a brave few have raised a call to arms, telling citizens that since police can't be everywhere at once, it is up to individuals to protect themselves and their communities until police can arrive.
In a Facebook video post, Police Chief Randy Kennedy of Hughes Springs, Texas, responded to President Obama's call for more gun control in the wake of the deadly attack in San Bernardino, which is being investigated by the FBI as an act of terrorism. Appearing in the video in a beige Western hat, he addressed the president directly. "Mr. Obama, you need to understand what the second amendment is for. It is not for hunting; it is there for the American people to protect themselves against the criminal element, to protect themselves against terrorists and radical ideology, it is also there to protect us against a government that has overreached its power. You are not our potentate, sir; you are our servant," the east Texas police chief said. He added, "I strongly encourage you to trust the law-abiding American citizen because ... we won't let you down."
The New American spoke with Chief Kennedy and asked him about that trust. He said that he made his video "for the people in my community," adding, "Someone in New York or even Dallas can't understand what we face here. There's this idea that this is Mayberry and the most we have to deal with is the town drunk or Earnest T. Bass throwing rocks through windows. That's not the case."
He told The New American that he has worked on cases with the FBI and other agencies, including one case involving a serial killer. In some instances he has had to rely on citizens getting involved and helping him effect arrests. He said he is comfortable asking those citizens to arm themselves because "trust works both ways." He expects the citizens in his community to trust him and he trusts them.
When asked about the video he made, he said he doesn't believe his remarks are extreme in the least. "The silent majority is not wanting to remain silent anymore," he said, "All I did was add my voice to the majority." He said he decided to make the video because he watched the president's speech hoping to hear real solutions to the problem of terrorism. Instead he heard "the same old thing." He said, "I watched to hear his solution. All I heard was, 'We're not at war with Islam, don't be mean to Muslims, I'm not going to protect the border, and by the way, I want to add more gun restrictions on law-abiding citizens.'"
That's a disturbing message coming from the president, he said, because, "Anytime you have a situation where the law abiding are prevented from owning guns, that's an end run around the Second Amendment." In both the video and the interview with The New American, Chief Kennedy stressed that he is not advocating that everyone get a gun and carry it or that guns be used without discretion. His message is for the "law-abiding" citizens of his community who know how to use guns safely and with good judgment.
Chief Kennedy is not alone either. Other police leaders are saying the same thing. In upstate New York, Ulster County Sheriff Paul J. Van Blarcum also used Facebook to get a message out to citizens in his community. The post, which begins, "ATTENTION LICENSED HANDGUN OWNERS," says:
In light of recent events that have occurred in the United States and around the world I want to encourage citizens of Ulster County who are licensed to carry a firearm to PLEASE DO SO. I urge you to responsibly take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm. To ensure the safety of yourself and others, make sure you are comfortable and proficient with your weapon, and knowledgeable of the laws in New York State with regards to carrying a weapon and when it is legal to use it.
I also want to remind all Police/Peace Officers both active duty and retired to please carry a weapon whenever you leave your house. We are the thin blue line that is entrusted in keeping this country safe, and we must be prepared to act at any given moment.
The post appeared on the official Facebook page of the Ulster County Sheriff's Office one day after the ISIS inspired mass shooting in San Bernardino.
More than 1,300 miles south of Ulster County, New York, another sheriff also posted to Facebook using his office's official page. Hendry County, Florida Sheriff Steve Whidden wrote:
In the wake of the recent attack on Americans in San Bernardino County, California, it is evident that we as a nation are under attack by radical Islamic terrorists. These people have vowed under their religion to destroy all who do not follow their beliefs. Radical Islam has openly declared war on us and has vowed to attack us here — on our soil — and they are here with more coming.
Because terrorists "have promised that more Paris-style attacks are still to come" and "we do not know when, we do not know where, and we do not know how many will come against us," Sheriff Whidden is encouraging citizens in his county who have concealed carry permits to carry their guns with them whenever they can:
Our county is small in numbers and I feel that we are unlikely to be targeted by these evil people. However, as your Sheriff, I encourage all who are legally eligible, and trained to carry concealed weapons to do so. I do not want any of us to be helpless victims if we should fall under attack.
His post goes on to offer information about how those who qualify, but do not yet have their concealed carry permits, can obtain one. He also encourages those who "are not interested or do not have time to obtain" a permit to carry in other ways that the law allows. The sheriff also urges citizens to exercise caution and "be aware of your surroundings" as well as working with law enforcement by reporting "anything or anyone that appears to be suspicious."
Another Florida sheriff has spoken out in favor of an armed citizenry, as well. Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey also used his department's official Facebook page (and YouTube channel) to post a video urging citizens to arm themselves within the law and be proactive in defending themselves and their communities. "Let there be no mistake in what I'm about to say: The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," Sheriff Ivey says in the video, "If you are a person who is legally licensed to carry a firearm, now is that time — more than ever — to realize that you, and you alone, may very well be the first line of defense for you, your family, and others around you in a terrorist or active shooter based scenario."
The sheriff made it clear that he is "no way suggesting" that citizens "take on a vigilante role." He said, "What I am saying is that we need to be mentally and physically prepared to respond to an attack." He said that citizens could use that preparedness and their guns to "defend and survive an attack by armed, evil people until the calvary can arrive." Throughout the nearly seven-minute video, Sheriff Ivey expresses his faith and trust in law-abiding citizens. Like Police Chief Kennedy, he seems to realize that "trust works both ways." Near the end of the video — which has been viewed nearly four million times — he provides information on firearm training offered by his office, as well as how to begin the process of getting a concealed carry permit.
While many of these posts and videos are recent events, the existence of police chiefs and sheriffs encouraging law-abiding citizens to arm themselves is not new. In 2011, Sheriff Chuck Wright in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, held a press conference after a woman was attacked by a repeat offender in a park. He told the assembled press, "I'm tired of looking at victims saying, 'There's life after this.' I'm tired of saying, 'We're sorry, we can't keep them in jail.'"
Speaking of the attacker, he said, the man "doesn't fight police or men folk — he just goes after women," adding, "It's too bad someone with a concealed weapons permit didn't walk by. That would fix it." Several times during the press conference the sheriff said, "I want you to get a concealed weapons permit." He even suggested a good choice for a personal defense weapon. "They got one called The Judge that shoots a .45 or a .410 shell. You ain't got to be accurate; you just have to get close." He said the best gun control "is when you can get your barrel back on the target quick. That's gun control."
In 2013, Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke, Jr. — a strong advocate of both the Second Amendment and common sense — also encouraged the law-abiding to arm themselves so that they can defend themselves while waiting for police to arrive. He appeared on CNN for an "interview" with Piers Morgan, who — par for the course — spent the entire time berating the sheriff while talking over him instead of allowing him to answer questions.
More recently — in fact, only days before the attack in San Bernardino — Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio delivered the same message: Law-abiding citizens should be armed and able to defend themselves and their communities. In a press release dated December 8, his office said:
On November 30, 2015, while launching his 22nd annual mall posse patrol, for which armed posse volunteers patrol the valley malls during the holiday season, Sheriff Arpaio called on armed citizens to take a stand against domestic and international terrorism and other mass shooting events. His message went unheard until three days later when the San Bernardino incident took place.
Since then his message has reached over 14 million people via social media, and has garnered overwhelming support from many of those people.
"Now it's the police chiefs' turn," says Sheriff Arpaio. "So many other people have joined the call, I want the chiefs to take a stand for what is right, and let the people who legally carry guns to protect themselves and the people around them. Let them know it is okay to do so during a mass shooting scenario until we can arrive. Everyone knows that while law enforcement is never far away, we cannot be everywhere at the same time all the time — but we will get there."
So, while the anti-gun crowd will undoubtedly make the standard accusations about "armed vigilantes" and "simple arguments turning into bloodbaths" as communities turn into "the wild west," the real message is that law-abiding citizens are trustworthy and responsible. And while police are on their way to a crime scene — whether it's a deranged individual or a coordinated terrorist attack — those law-abiding citizens are already there. They are "the first line of defense."

"THE SILENCE & THE SOUND" BY SORENSON, FORMER BAYLOR MUSIC PROFESSOR~A CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICAL CHRISTMAS CANTATA IMPORTED BY FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH DELAWARE

APOSTATE MUSIC FOR THE "HOLIDAYS"
INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICING THE SILENCE, CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE STYLE 
FOR CHRISTMAS;
FEELINGS BASED; LEAVES OUT AND/OR ADDS TO SCRIPTURE NARRATIVE
CHRIST NOT FOUND WITHIN; 
REVELATION NOT FOUND WITHIN
I "I am learning to embrace my marks; you see, every time God’s chisel chips away a part of me, it exposes a piece of Christ underneath. The scars that seemed to strip me of my own beauty are changing me into a picture of God’s Beautiful Son. And in this light, I am honored to bear God’s marks. They have changed my image of God, my relationship with God, and they have changed my worship of God." 

Deeply Etched,
Heather
Heather Sorenson
DRAWING ON CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM & FRENCH ECUMENICAL TAIZE SILENCE AND MANTRA HYMNS, INFLUENCED BY  APOSTATE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY:
HEATHER SORENSON'S CANTATA:
PRODUCT MOSTLY OF HER IMAGINATION 
FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH, 
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE
"THE SILENCE AND THE SOUND Christmas cantata will be 
our 10:45AM morning service on December 20. This 
presentation is more than just a retelling of the nativity; this 
presentation explores both the mystery and the majesty of 
Christ’s birth. Filled with original sacred songs and beloved 
carols, this innovative cantata is not only a beautiful concert 
experience, but it is also a true worship experience. We hope 
you will join us and bring a friend!"
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COMPOSER, ARRANGER, PIANIST, CLINICIAN 
EXCERPTS:
Composer and arranger Heather Sorenson entered the church music industry several years ago, and her name has quickly become a welcomed fixture in the publishing world. Heather is hired by the largest and most respected publishers in the world, and her pieces remain at the top of bestseller lists and Editor's Choice selections.

Heather's publications include choral compositions, piano books, children's music, orchestrations, and two piano albums.  Her compositions are performed weekly in thousands of churches around the world, as well as in historic concert venues including the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., DAR Constitution Hall, and Carnegie Hall in NYC.
Teaching has become a large part of Heather's career and ministry.  She taught all elementary levels of music at Grace Academy of Dallas for 4 years, served as an adjunct music professor at Baylor University, and has served on many master class panels in piano and songwriting.  Heather regularly is a guest speaker and conductor at churches across America, and leads scores of sessions each year at various worship conferences, schools, and universities. 

Currently Heather spends her time juggling a full writing load as well as traveling as a guest artist and lecturer.  She makes her home in the Dallas, TX area with her beagle baby. 
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"GOD WAS SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO ME" 
WHEN I COMPOSED & ARRANGED THIS CANTATA

"POPPED INTO HER HEAD", BUT DID NOT CHECK WITH GOD'S WORD

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PERFORMANCE AT BRANDYWINE VALLEY BAPTIST CHURCH, WILMINGTON, DELAWARE; INTERVIEW AT SAINT MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH, HANOVER, PENNSYLVANIA
NEW (ECUMENICAL) PASSIONS?
Published on Aug 14, 2015
Heather Sorenson tells Pepper about her dream to have her music performed by popular contemporaries.

Published on Aug 14, 2015
Heather Sorenson talks about what makes her music popular with both contemporary and traditional worship communities.
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INFLUENCED BY BAYLOR UNIVERSITY'S CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUAL FORMATION PROGRAM

Baylor University Invites Ken Blanchard, Contemplative Proponent:






EXCERPT: "Quick to jump on the band wagon for accepting the homosexual lifestyle is Baylor University, (the largest Baptist university in the world). According to a July 8th 2015 Time magazine article titled “This University Has Dropped Its Ban on ‘Homosexual Acts,’”  Baylor “dropped a prohibition on ‘homosexual acts’ from its sexual conduct policy”this past May."

FULL BORE INTO CATHOLIC CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM & SPIRITUAL FORMATION DISCIPLINES, BORROWED FROM THE MONKS

Baylor University Spiritual Life Celebrates Opening of Elliston Chapel with a Week of Contemplative Services

EXCERPT: WACO, Texas (April 29, 2015) – Baylor University will celebrate the completion and opening of Elliston Chapel with gatherings and services from Tuesday, April 28, to Thursday, April 30.
“We wanted to build a sacred space as part East Village, but we also wanted this one to be accessible to the general Baylor community,” said Burt Burleson, D.Min., university chaplain and dean of spiritual life. “Elliston Chapel is unique in that it’s not a part of another facility. It’s everyone’s chapel.”
Each service will last less than 30 minutes and be contemplative in nature.
The schedule of events is as follows.
Tuesday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. - Prayers for the Persecuted
Wednesday, April 29, at 3:30 p.m. - Vespers, a liturgical prayer service
Thursday, April 30, at 4:30 p.m. - Taize, (http://taize.fr/), a prayer service based on the simple, chant-like approach to prayer of a monastery in southern France
In addition to the three public services, Elliston Chapel will welcome prayer services and religious programming from various campus groups.
Elliston Chapel is a 3,000-square-foot, 120-seat chapel that will accommodate small Bible studies, group worship and individual reflection. It was funded with a lead gift from Molli, B.S. (Education) ’75, and Gary Elliston of Dallas.
The chapel is located at 1701 S. Third St. It is open to the public daily from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
“Elliston Chapel is an uplifting space filled with bright energy and open windows,” Burleson said. “Our hope is that it will be used not by chaplains leading services, but that student organizations will use it for worship, prayer and various other spiritual programming. We wanted to celebrate its first week by welcoming the chapel to Baylor with all of these services.”

FROM: http://www.baylor.edu/alumni/magazine/1203/news.php?action=story&story=142716; EXCERPT:

"At their regular February meeting, Baylor University’s Board of Regents approved $1.7 million for the design and construction of the Elliston Chapel, a 3,000-square-foot chapel that will accommodate small group Bible study, group worship and individual reflection. Funded with a lead gift from Molli, BA ‘75, and Baylor Regent Gary Elliston of Dallas, the 100-seat chapel will be built next to Hallie Earle Hall on the East Village property at Third Street and Bagby Avenue. Construction on Elliston Chapel is expected to begin this spring and be completed by spring 2015.
“We are truly grateful to Molli and Gary Elliston for this generous gift to the University,” said Richard S Willis, BBA ‘81, MBA ‘82, chair of the Baylor Board of Regents. “Molli and Gary believe that the pursuit of truth and calling is at the heart of the Baylor student experience. With this gift, the Ellistons have made possible the creation of a sacred space on our campus that will provide the opportunity for worship and reflection and empower our students as they become agents of transformation, advancing God’s kingdom in all that they do.”"
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Blake Burleson, Ph.D., Talks about his Book on Contemplative Prayer:

"Entempling: Baptist Wisdom for Contemplative Prayer"
EXCERPT: About Praxis: Praxis was founded ten years ago to publish and manufacture quality materials, texts and resources for the contemporary spiritual seeker. Since our small beginnings we have grown and produced books and texts, a journal, educational materials, manuals for study and reflection, and provide retreats and seminars. We produce and sell the original handmade Anglican Rosary as well as other products of quality such as bells for meditation purposes. 


Juli Rosenbaum, MA 

Licensures and Certifications

  • Reiki Healing Level I, American Reiki Academy (September 6, 2011 - Present)

Presentations and Proceedings

"Using the Enneagram in Business and Teaching," presented at the Dean's Teaching Tea Workshop: The Enneagram, Cashion 404, November 2013. 

"Using the Enneagram in Business and Teaching," presented at the Dean's Teaching Luncheon Workshop #2: The Enneagram, Cashion 404, November 2013. 

"Contemplative Pedagogy," presented at the Contemplative Pedagogy at the University Level, Faculty McMullen Center, November 2013. 

SEE OUR PREVIOUS POST ABOUT ENNEAGRAMS:
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SEE ALSO:
MYSTICISM: 
SPIRITUAL FORMATION PROGRAM: 
LETTER FROM SPIRITUAL FORMATION TO INCOMING TRUETT SEMINARY STUDENTS:
Dear Incoming Truett Student,
We are so happy that you have elected to come to Truett Seminary. We think you will find Truett Seminary a warm and welcoming Christian community in which you will be challenged to grow both academically and spiritually. The spiritual formation program at Truett is based on small group discipleship. These small groups are made up of six to eight students who meet weekly for prayer and spiritual formation. Students stay together within their group for their entire time at seminary. This allows them to build strong bonds of spiritual trust and an environment of encouragement and growth throughout their Truett experience.
Each semester the focus of the group changes so that students are exposed to the challenge of reshaping their lives around their commitment to Jesus Christ in a variety of ways and situations. You, as a first year student, will be exposed to basic spiritual disciplines including prayer, community and the use of silence in the spiritual life.
Your spiritual formation program for each semester will include reading a book, practicing the different spiritual disciplines found within the book and then sharing about that experience with your covenant group. You will also practice these disciplines with your group as you meet each week. You will be given the name of the book at the first covenant group orientation so that you may be able to purchase it. Most first and second semester groups have an outside leader or mentor to help the group along. They act as a guide for your meeting times together in which you will read Scripture and pray. You are also encouraged to meet your group occasionally for lunch or other outside fellowship time, to help you further develop community with each other. Most first and second semester covenant groups meet at 9:30am on Thursdays at Truett (except for those groups that are for commuter students or dual-degree students). We suggest allotting five hours a week for spiritual formation. This time will include one hour per week in Chapel, one hour per week in your covenant group, and thirty minutes, five days a week, for covenant group readings and prayer. You must receive credit at the end of each of the six semesters of covenant groups as part of the basic requirements for graduation and the M.Div. degree.
Please make sure you complete this Covenant Group Questionnaire. This will help us in placing you in a group. You will also need to purchase and read Sacred Pathways by Gary Thomas (you can also purchase the Kindle edition). We will discuss this book at the New Student Orientation on Thursday, January 10th and you will also reflect upon the information learned in the book in your first assignment for covenant group (and again in your final). This book describes nine distinct spiritual temperaments. In one or more of them, you will see yourself and the ways you most naturally express your relationship with God. Please take the short quiz with each chapter to help you identify which temperament most reflects you at this time. We will discuss these during our time in new student orientation. I have attached a scanned copy of the first chapter for you to help you get started.
Mark your calendars for Thursdays January 17th and 24th at 9:30 am in the chapel for your covenant group orientations. We look forward to getting to know you next semester.
Sincerely,
Tiffani Harris
Assistant Director of Spiritual Formation, Truett Seminary
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SIMILAR TO BETH MOORE'S FALSE VISION IN PICTURES ABOUT CATHOLICISM

JOHN PIPER LEADS CATHOLIC "LECTIO DIVINA" IN SILENCE 
WITH BETH MOORE


JOHN MACARTHUR DEBUNKS CONTEMPLATIVE MYSTICISM
"DIVINE REVELATION" IS EXTERNAL TO HUMANS; 
NOT FOUND WITHIN















FEDERAL JUDGE DENIES TEXAS REQUEST TO BLOCK SYRIAN REFUGEE SETTLEMENT

FEDERAL JUDGE DAVID GODBEY
KEN PAXTON, TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL
FEDERAL JUDGE DENIES TEXAS REQUEST TO BLOCK SYRIAN REFUGEE SETTLEMENT 
BY WARREN MASS
SEE: http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/22109-federal-judge-denies-texas-request-to-block-syrian-refugee-settlementrepublished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:

U.S. District Judge David Godbey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued an order on December 9 denying Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's second application for a temporary restraining order to block the State Department, the International Rescue Committee, and other defendants from resettling Syrian refugees in Texas. 
Godbey’s decision was in response to a request filed by Paxton on December 9 on behalf of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. In this request, Paxton noted that there was new “evidence” that refugees pose potential danger, and he cited evidence that included statements that “terrorist organizations have infiltrated the very refugee program that is central to the dispute.”
Paxton included in his new evidence statements by Reresentative Mike McCaul (R-Texas), a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, as well as statements of “security concern” by the Texas Department of Public Safety’s deputy director of Homeland Security.
The amended request replaced an earlier one that Texas had dropped on December 4. Prior to that, on December 2, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission filed a lawsuit in the same court asking for an immediate restraining order and a hearing by December 9 to petition for an injunction preventing the resettlement of the refugees within Texas.
In denying the state’s request, Godbey wrote:
The [Texas Health and Human Services] Commission argues that terrorists could have infiltrated the Syrian refugees and could commit acts of terrorism in Texas. The Court finds that the evidence before it is largely speculative hearsay.
The Commission has failed to show by competent evidence that any terrorists actually have infiltrated the refugee program, much less that these particular refugees are terrorists intent on causing harm.
The Court does not downplay the risks that terrorism, as a general matter, may pose.
It must, however, assess the risk, if any, posed by these particular refugees. The Court also acknowledges that the kind of concrete information that would help in assessing that risk is the very sort of information the Commission complains the Federal Defendants  should have — but did not — share with the Commission. Nonetheless, on the record before the Court, the Court finds that the Commission has failed to establish by a preponderance of the admissible evidence that there is a substantial threat of irreparable injury, and therefore denies the application for TRO [Temporary Restraining Order].
The defendants in the case to which Godbey referred included Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Health & Human Services Sylvia Burwell, and Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Robert Carey.
The Dallas Morning News reported on December 9 that about 21 Syrian refugees are expected to be settled in Dallas and Houston by the end of the week.
Godbey’s decision pertains only to the December 9 request for a a temporary restraining order and does not constitute a ruling on the December 2 lawsuit filed by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The Dallas Morning News reported:
Despite the ruling, Texas’ lawsuit over refugee resettlements is not over. A hearing is likely to come in January, said ACLU attorney Rebecca Robertson, who is representing a resettlement nonprofit [the International Rescue Committee that Texas also sued.]
As we noted in our article about the Texas lawsuit on December 3, there is a more effective strategy than filing lawsuits in federal court that the states can employ to exercise their right to determine which foreign refugees may cross their borders. Under the power of nullification, the states have the right to refuse to comply with not only federal actions pertaining to refugee resettlement, but in any area where the federal government attempts to usurp authority vis-à-vis the states that is not specifically granted to it by the Constitution.
We cited an article on the subject posted by The New American on November 30, in which constitutional attorney and contributor Joe Wolverton explored the arguments concerning whether state governors have the right to refuse entry into their states of refugees fleeing Syria.
The first point that Wolverton addressed was the assertion made by those claiming that federal authority supercedes the rights of the states on the matter — citing the “supremacy clause” of Article VI of the Constitution. He reminded readers that the Supremacy Clause does not declare that all laws passed by the federal government are the supreme law of the land, but only “laws of the United States made in pursuance" of the Constitution.
In other words: in pursuance thereof, not in violation thereof
Wolverton also noted that the Constitution has little to say about immigration (although Article I, Section 8 empowers Congress to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization.”) Naturalization, however, is not the same as immigration, since (he writes): “Immigration is the act of coming to a country of which one is not a native. Naturalization, however, is defined as the conference upon an alien of the rights and privileges of a citizen.”
The article quoted a rare statement made by a president concerning which branch of government has the power to regulate immigration. President Ulysses S. Grant wrote in a memo to the House of Representatives: “Responsibility over immigration can only belong with the States since this is where the Constitution kept the power.” 
As Wolverton concluded his article:
With respect to the difficult and potentially dangerous position in which [Arizona] Governor Ducey and the other 30 or so state executives find themselves, one wonders where in the Constitution states are required to ask the federal government’s permission to exercise a power they specifically retain under the Bill of Rights, namely the power to grant or refuse permission for entry into their sovereign territory to an immigrant, no matter what label that immigrant is given by the federal government.
The right of states to nullify unconstitutional usurpations of power by the federal government is well documented in the writings of the Founding Fathers. As just one example, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1798 in his Resolutions Relative to the Alien and Sedition Acts:
Where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy: that every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact, (casus non foederis,) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits: that without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.
Though the Texas lawsuit is still pending, it is very optimistic to hope that a federal judge will decide in favor of the states in this matter in federal courts. However, by exercising the concept of nullification, the federal government could not so easily dismiss their resistance to federal usurpation, without triggering a constitutional crisis.
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