is now the seventh state since the big lie and the violent attempted coup on january 6. this is the seventh state that has passed an omnibus law to make voting harder. yes, we can keep going to court in state after state after state, and we are, because we believe these laws violate the constitution and the voting rights act, but boy, it would sure be better if congress would pass the for the people act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act and put in place a structure that would simply shut down these terrible suppression efforts. in terms of texas in the news right now, obviously the texas abortion ban being allowed to go into effect last week by the supreme court continues to be a huge new story in the country. the texas governor making news on that today with bizarre comments about how his plan for rape victims being forced to bear their rapist s child under the new law is something he ll take care of because he s going to eliminate rape in texas. texas is sort of positio
if you think there is a remedy for these laws in the courts. and you ve been pretty clear here repeatedly in the past that the best remedy would be for congress to pass a new law, something like the for the people act, to bolster voting rights in federal sought in a way that states can t deviate from. does texas passing this law change that calculation at all, or are we still in the same place we were? if anything, it just illustrates the problem, which is that, as you point out, this is now the seventh state since the big lie and the violent attempted coup on january 6. this is the seventh state that has passed an omnibus law to make voting harder. yes, we can keep going to court in state after state after state, and we are, because we believe these laws violate the constitution and the voting rights act, but boy, it would sure be better if congress would pass the for the people act, the john lewis voting rights advancement act and put in place a structure that would simply shut dow