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the most unpatriotic, and sadly not unprecedented. time and again we ve weathered threats to the right to vote in free and fair elections. each time we founding a way to overcome. the 21st century jim crow assault is real. it s unrelenting. and we re going to challenge it vigorously. biden mirrored lyndon johnson s voting rights speech in 1965 invoking the civil rights anthem we shall overcome. in assailing what he called the greatest threat to democracy since the civil war. but biden didn t offer much in the way of a plan. when president johnson delivered his speech to a joint session of congress, he was urging passage of the voting rights act. a law that s now essentially dead. and today texas democrats continued their fight against republican voter suppression efforts in their state after more than 50 elected democrats left texas last night to block the passage of new voter suppression laws. the longest serving black woman in the texas legislature outlined exactly ....
well. cnn cnn s dianne gallagher is there for us right now. first, what s the latest on this flight and both meanings of the word to d.c. and what texas lawmakers hope to accomplish? well, anderson, the first of those two private planes that s carrying the democrats, who are breaking quorum by leaving the state just landed about two minutes ago. and the second one should be landing, before i finish talking to you, tonight. they are on those flights because they feel the only way that they can prevent legislation that, they think, will restrict voting rights and be harmful to their citizens is to break quorum because they told me that they simply don t think that the republicans are playing fair. there are two, separate bills that were introduced in the special session. that s h.b. 3 and s.b. 1 and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to the voting processes. and and different kinds of criminal penalties added to the voting process. specifically, for election ....
they are working to meet with members of the senate, particularly senate democrats to do more to address voting rights and to address the filibuster. yeah, they re not satisfied with the white house efforts to date. once they do return to texas, these lawmakers could be welcomed back by state troopers if governor greg abbott gets his way. as soon as they come back in the state of texas, they will be arrested, they will be cabined inside the texas capitol until they get their job done. president biden says that he is taking the issue head-on. he is expected to layout the moral case for voting rights in a major speech in philadelphia later today. he will also launch a pressure campaign to combat efforts by republican-led state legislatures to restrict access to the ballot. can he get laws passed? cnn s diane gallagher joins us from outside the hotel where they are staying. you need a minimum of lawmakers present to pass legislation. it will officially break in a cou ....
after the biggest protest in decades. good to have you with us. voting rights in the u.s. are front and center today with a major address from president biden and an old fashioned texas standoff over new election restrictions. white house press secretary jen s psaki offered this preview. to lay out the moral case why it is a form of suppression and silencing and he will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental right of americans to vote against the onslaught of voter suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory that culminated in an assault on our capitol. and meanwhile democrats flew to washington late monday, and that are absence would deny republicans a quorum and keep them from voting on new restrictions. dianne gallagher has more. reporter: there are two separate bills that were introduced in the special session, and both do contain a whole slew of restrictions to th ....
other secret moves up their sleeve for this session and she kind of said yes. we do. but i m not gonna tell you. and so i think now we know with that move turned out to be. it s one of those days where you re looking at the headline that you think, oh yeah, there it is. that s what she meant. yes. yeah, we were so close. we were so close. i m rachel, thank you very much for getting david to come on your program tonight. i was watching that hearing today that went on forever and i so admire the way he handled himself. the way judge parker modeled sanity won surrounded by insanity. it was just a remarkable thing to watch. every once in a while. i mean the courts don t always work this way but every once in a while, the courts, by imposing rationality and fact based discourse, can bring up they can put gravity back into work into what is otherwise a totally in sane maelstrom. and all of this is been an insane maelstrom from the beginning. when you force it through ....