Trump calls on 'all willing states' to blatantly defy SCOTUS border ruling in Texas

Former President Donald Trump is now openly siding with Republican governors in their ongoing standoff with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) over the Southern border.

Earlier this week, SCOTUS ruled that federal agents are within their right to remove razor wire along the US-Mexico border in Texas, stating that the federal government — not states — has jurisdiction over national borders. But in a recent post to his Truth Social platform, Trump instead encouraged "all willing states" to send National Guard troops to Texas to assist Republican Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of the Court. Trump said additional troops were needed to "prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border."

As of this week, 25 Republican governors (all GOP governors in the US with the exception of Gov. Phil Scott in Vermont) signed a statement in support of Texas as Gov. Abbott continues to openly disregard a Supreme Court ruling. VICE reported that ten of those governors had already sent National Guard troops and other law enforcement resources to the Southern border, with potentially more on the way.

POLL: Should Trump be allowed to hold office again?

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) told Fox News on Friday that he had "already started putting the numbers together" in terms of his state sending resources to Texas, and previously told Newsmax host Carl Higbie that he hadn't ruled out the possibility of a "force-on-force" clash between federal troops and state national guardsmen at the border.

The standoff began earlier this month when the Texas National Guard cut off federal border agents' access to the Shelby Park area, which is a major border crossing point for migrants. Abbott justified that decision by saying his troops were guarding the state from an "invasion."

"The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states," Abbott wrote in a letter issued on Wednesday.

The clash between Republican states and SCOTUS may be the most high-profile event of the sort since the Nullification Crisis of 1832. That began after South Carolina nullified tariffs on imported goods imposed by the federal government, prompting President Andrew Jackson to threaten to send federal troops to the Palmetto State. Jackson asserted that "disunion by armed force is treason," and Congress passed a bill authorizing the use of force to enforce federal authority if necessary. While South Carolina ultimately backed down, it later played host to the first act of belligerence against the United States at Fort Sumter, which kicked off the Civil War.

READ MORE: Appeals court tells Texas to remove Rio Grande buoy 'death traps'