Texas gov eyes retaliation after Dems derail voter-suppression bill
The good news for democracy is that Texas Democrats derailed an odious voter-suppression bill. The bad news is, the victory may be fleeting.
BySteve Benen
As Texas Republicans advanced a pernicious voter-suppression bill on Saturday, President Joe Biden condemned it in unambiguous terms. The proposal represented an assault on democracy, the president said, adding, It s wrong and un-American.
GOP legislators clearly didn t care, but Biden s assessment was more than fair. A
Washington Posteditorial described Texas anti-voting plan as the most odious anti-democratic act by a legislature this year and given the flood of voter-suppression measures unveiled in recent months, the competition is fierce.
Maddow Blog | Texas gov eyes retaliation after Dems derail voter-suppression bill MSNBC 1 hr ago Steve Benen
As Texas Republicans advanced a pernicious voter-suppression bill on Saturday, President Joe Biden condemned it in unambiguous terms. The proposal represented an assault on democracy, the president said, adding, It s wrong and un-American.
GOP legislators clearly didn t care, but Biden s assessment was more than fair. A
Washington Posteditorial described Texas anti-voting plan as the most odious anti-democratic act by a legislature this year and given the flood of voter-suppression measures unveiled in recent months, the competition is fierce.
Republicans in the Lone Star State went to great lengths to craft a bill, negotiated in secret, that attacked the franchise in a multifaceted way, making it more difficult to cast absentee ballots, while curtailing early voting, banning drive-through voting, empowering partisan poll watchers, and even