The pro-Spain arguments here in this post are really poor. The only two good arguments that on their face are worth looking at are: Catalan's pop is evenly spli

The pro-Spain arguments here in this post are really poor. The only two good arguments that on their face are worth looking at are: Catalan's pop is evenly split on the issue and local officials are pushing it to gain power. Spain was baited-they took it, and now Catalan's secession movement has international sympathy. For abit of context of how something this is handled here in America. In 2015 the US Supreme Court temporary blocked a Native Hawaiian non-profit from counting votes in what lower courts called a private election (that the Supreme Court said used public funds granted to that non-profit). The issue plaintiffs were suing the non-profit over was it was excluded only to what they considered 'Native Hawaiians'. They wanted to establish a Constitution for Native Hawaiians for self governance. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-supreme-court-blocks-vote-counting-hawaii-election-n470401 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-supreme-court-block... http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/29/15-17134.pdf http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2016/08/29/15... The organization later dissolved from what I read in the Supreme Court's opinion on sanctions. I had trouble finding more info on it. From what I can tell the courts barely cared except for the issue of using public money for a racially exclusive election. This story reminded me of it so I thought it would add to the debate.