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Texas Democrats leaving state to stop GOP voting bill
The move marks the first time in 18 years that Democrats crossed state lines in an attempt to break quorum.
Posted: Jul 12, 2021 5:22 PM
Posted By: CNN
Texas state House Democrats left the state Monday in an effort to block Republicans from passing a restrictive new voting law in the remaining 27 days of the special legislative session called by Gov. Greg Abbott.
The majority of the Democrats fleeing Texas are flying to Washington, DC, on two chartered jets, two sources familiar with the Democrats plans told CNN. They have kept planning secret because they can be legally compelled to return to the state Capitol and believed law enforcement could be sent to track them down, the sources said.
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First published on Thu 27 May 2021 08.19 EDT
On Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers in the Texas house of representatives successfully stalled a transphobic bill from going to a vote until it hit its “pass-or-die” deadline and expired.
Senate Bill 29, which had already passed the Texas senate, would have forced all student athletes in the state to compete according to their sex assigned at birth.
The failed legislation was one of at least 35 such bills aimed at restricting trans students’ participation in school athletics mounted by Republican
lawmakers in 2021.
In 2019, there were only two.
SB 29 is also part of a broader legislative assault on queer and trans people nationwide by Republicans and conservatives. The Human Rights Campaign has already declared 2021 to be “the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history”, with 17 bills targeting trans people’s access to gender-affirming medical care, trans students’ ability to participate in school athletics, a
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