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Like the ban on overnight and drive through voting, the new id requirements for vote by mail and new criminal penalties for election workers who want to do things like perhaps send unsolicited vote by mail applications to people already qualified, democrats are saying this isnt going to make it easier for people to vote, it is going to disenfranchise black and brown voters, voters with disabilities. thats why over the summer we saw hours of hearings on the bills, these protests, quorum breaks th...

Expected to sign the bill. the question is, what does all this mean? i asked one of the democratic lawmakers that broke quorum and then returned, and i asked if it was worth it, all that they did, was it worth it, and he told me it was. and its time for federal authorities to act on protections for voting? >> priscilla, thank you. lets stay in texas, because this morning the justice department decided to get involved in the fight surrounding that states new controversial abortion law. merrick ga...

Engage in things where we could have changed part of the law, where were most concerned about. and i do think that it is important to know that we really worked hard to make sure that our physician/patient relationship was not threatened by either of these pieces of legislation. and unfortunately, we were not successful in getting those key elements addressed as part of the legislation overall. >> what stood in your way? >> i think there was many things that stood in our way, particularly in thi...

And just one more here, in the state of texas if you attend a professional sporting event, the national anthem must be played before the game or the team could lose state funding as well as business relationships. now, a lot of these were probably overshadowed when the democrats walked out of that regular session so that they could block the election overall bill that adds new restrictions and criminal penalties to the voting process here in texas. their six week quorum ended last month and that...

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Enough democrats showed up to their most recent special session to meet quorum entering a modified build to a vote for the legislation includes id requirements in other regulations for voting by mail as well as banning drive-throug and overnight voting but expanding early voting hours among other provisions. krispy kreme, amc movie theater in sephora along with doctor anthony 5g among some of the public officials facing a lawsuit from an indiana woman who claims she is being discriminated agains...

Phoenix. there were hundreds of people who gathered at the pilgrim rest baptist church. in miami people held up a protect voting rights sign that says tell our senators to pass the john lewis voting rights act. this is all happening right on time. in texas, republicans on friday passed their new voting rights restrictions through the state house. texas democrats had managed to hold this off for nearly 38 days when they fled the state to deny republicans a quorum so they couldnt act at all. but n...

Tribute to the late congressman and civil rights activist john lewis who was born in troy, alabama. there were good size marches held in places like atlanta, in phoenix. there were hundreds of people who gathered at the pilgrim rest baptist church. in miami people held up a protect voting rights sign that says tell our senators to pass the john lewis voting rights act. this is all happening right on time. in texas, republicans on friday passed their new voting rights restrictions through the sta...

The purpose of trying to get this legislation passed. we saw the great work that congresswoman sheila jackson-lee made sure that she included in that bill, a look-back provision. now, i dont know if that provision will survive in the senate. i dont know that the bill itself will survive, but i do know that there are people fighting in the u.s. house. i know that there have been people fighting in the texas legislature, and, honestly, it became very apparent that people in georgia, in arizona and...

La Comisión de Reglamento de la Convención Constitucional ratificó este viernes 27 de agosto el quórum requerido para la aprobación final