Posted on 08/29/2021 9:10:28 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — After a historic quorum-breaking effort by Texas House Democrats led to a nearly three-month stall on legislative action, House lawmakers debated and passed the elections bill that catalyzed the standoff.
“We did all that we could do,” State Rep. Nicole Collier said at a Tuesday news conference in Washington, DC. Collier was among several Texas House Democrats who broke quorum and went to the nation’s capital to call on Congress to pass federal legislation that could block Republican-led state laws to tighten election laws.
“We left Texas because we knew the fix was in,” Collier said of the effort to stall the Republican election bill in the Texas House. “We left Texas and came to Washington because the answer is here.”
A few hours after the news conference, Congressional lawmakers passed the John Lewis Act. The vote fell along party lines, with 219 Democrats voting in favor and 212 Republicans voting no. The act faces an uncertain future in the Senate, where a Republican filibuster could block the legislation from a final vote.
For Texas lawmakers, the focus on election legislation then shifted from Washington to the State Capitol in Austin. The Texas House of Representatives gaveled in at 10:45 a.m. Thursday and shortly after began debate on SB1, a bill Republicans say is needed for elections integrity and Democrats say will lead to voter suppression.
In anticipation of an impassioned debate on the controversial bill, Speaker of the House Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, reminded his members of the House decorum shortly after gaveling in.
“Our rules require we conduct ourselves in a civil manner and treat our colleagues with respect,” Phelan said.
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If you look at all the ID’s and documentation required to get them, from passports to library cards, Democrat assertions that requiring proof of ID is racist should be a straw man that the GOP can stomp into the ground with little effort. Alas, the GOP nationwide seems to have lost its spine and no longer works for the people who used to identify as Republicans.
Until a judge comes along and throws it out.
Delaying the inevitable, Bush League Republicans like Cornyn have already imported enough future Democrat voters to flip Texas once they get amnesty, which he is working on with Flimsey Grahamnesty and Micro Rubio and the rest of the Assistant Democrats.
“the fix was in,”
Democrats love the democratic process - until they don’t get their way.
How did the last amnesty work out for the Ddms?
Ended up flipping Texas from Dem to Republican now.
Democrats saying that minorities cannot get a voter ID is the ultimate racism. There was a video not long ago (maybe Project Veritas or Crowder) that interviewed kids at UC Berkeley about requiring voter ID. All the rich lib kids said minorities simply cannot get an ID for this reason or that. Then they went to New York City City and ask black residents about ID and the attitude of the rich kids at Berkeley saying that blacks couldn’t get ID. Every black person interviewed was astonished and offended at the idiocy of the Berkeley kids.
A young man told me his class was taught this was like the Jim Crow laws and utterly racist. I don't see anything remotely racist in here.
Let the lawsuits begin.
I saw the same video and Blacks rightly should be PO’ed at such actions. Why they don’t speak up and tell the Dems they’re outta line amazes me.
Every minority should be outraged as what Democrats are saying is they are too stupid to know how to get an ID or to vote for that matter.
This was not the first time they pulled that trick. They hid out in Oklahoma motels the last time.
Excellent. Now get more election fraud prevention laws in place in more states.
In some states they don’t need amnesty. They just need to be handed a ballot or take someone else’s ballot and vote for them.
True.
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