Posted on 08/09/2021 6:32:45 PM PDT by 11th_VA
The Texas House on Monday fell just short of having enough members to begin conducting official business and voted overwhelmingly in favor of a procedural move that locked the doors of the chamber to prevent members from leaving in an effort to retain a quorum.
The move, known as a “call of the House,” signals the continuation of a weekslong impasse between Democrats and Republicans in the chamber over a GOP elections bill as the second special session gets underway.
This is the second time in recent weeks the majority Republican House has voted to issue a call of the House to wrangle Democrats, though members on Monday did not offer or debate a motion to enable law enforcement to track down members still missing from the chamber. During the first special legislative session that ended Friday, the House voted overwhelmingly for such a motion while over 50 Democrats were camped out in Washington, D.C., to block that elections legislation…
The chamber came within five members of having a quorum Monday evening after at least four House Democrats who were in Washington were back on the floor, including state Reps. Joe Moody of El Paso and Mary González of Clint. Moody last month was stripped from his speaker pro tempore position by House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, as political retribution for joining his colleagues in Washington.
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On March 10, 1831, after some delay, James Tumlinson, Jr., a DeWitt colonist at Bexar, received one bronze cannon to be turned over to Green DeWitt at Gonzales, with a stipulation that it was to be returned to Mexican authorities upon request.
Those bad, bad Texans who said "Come and take it" should have obeyed the law. NOT!
The House needs a quorum to do any business including expelling a member. Once they get a quorum, then they can expel a member if they want.
I just wanna know...are they locked in overnight? issued blankets and pillows?
I'm sure there is one if a member dies.
I hate to break this to you, but we are no longer a republic.
So what is that supposed to mean?
Why do you think shredding the Texas Constitution is ok?
Texas is a Republic. As much as we might not like it, the 2/3rds quorum provision is in the Texas Constitution.
There is a mechanism to compel attendance and punish those who break quorum as well.
This judge is ignoring the Constitution and will be smacked down on appeal.
The people here advocating for shredding the Constitution are just as bad.
It could mean different things to different people.
Some might call it a dog whistle.
So is was the United States of America.
Sounds like fun but think carefully about what you said.
We scream (and rightfully so) when democrats rewrite the rules for their benefit, so should we do it?
Sounds like fun but think carefully about what you said.
We scream (and rightfully so) when democrats rewrite the rules for their benefit, so should we do it?
PS - I would rather have the government do nothing rather than keep making more and ore rules.
First you answer me. Do you think it was ok for the Texan’s who founded the state to break the law, i.e. by not returning a piece of property that belonged to someone else?
Start with their paychecks. Hold all pay AND benefits until they return to work. Make these parasites suffer.
Every business I know would have already fired them!
Exactly, in fact, if the law doesn't allow for that add it to the election integrity law reform bill.
The Texans who founded the State were following the doctrine of the lesser magistrate and were also following, not breaking the law.
The Declaration of November 7, 1835, passed by the Texas Consultation announced that the Texan war against Mexico principally intended to restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824, abrogated by the actions of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
Texans were fighting usurpation of the Constitutional Order, not throwing it away a la the godless French Revolution.
The battle of the Alamo happened after Texas declared its independence.
Your public skool history is lacking.
The agreement on the cannon was made in 1831. Skool taught me that 31 is before 35.
I understand the frustration, but this is - I believe - what they seek.
The goal here is abandonment of the rule of law. If we just ignore the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, if we start seeing this as a solution on both sides of the globalist aisle, then we’ll actually do it.
Once that happens, the one with the most guns and the least compunction wins.
"The Gonzales cannon was next mentioned in September 1835, when Col. Domingo de Ugartechea, the military commander at Bexar, sent Corporal Casimiro De León and five soldiers of the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras to retrieve the cannon. The Gonzales colonists notified Ugartechea they were keeping the gun "
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