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According to the center for justice, between january 1st and may 14th, at least 14 states have enacted 22 laws restricting access to the vote. there they are on the map and their number could triple, at least 61 bills with restricted provisions are moving through 18 state legislatures including in texas until last night. last night democrats in the state house of representatives walked out preventing a quorum on state senate bill 7. the session expired delaying passage of the measure until greg ...

Is an msnbc contributor. ana, good to see you this morning. it took this last-straw stunt for democrats to walk out and deny republicans a quorum to stop the bill for now at least in the state of texas. what is happening in the congress, though, on capitol hill in terms of voting rights. whats the future of these pieces of legislation? >> i think jonathan laid that out pretty well. but basically, were all looking to july. chuck schumer has said, that is when he plans to bring hr-1, this kind of ...

Governor abbott has not announced when that special session will be going back. calling on austin to bring it back to the table. democrats not wanting to talk about it in its current form. but we will talk about that in a second. frankly what happened over the weekend was historic. it was a late night and democrats by the way of text message decided to leave the chamber a few minutes before the deadline. and that basically kept them from reaching quorum to make a vote able to happen. in doing so...

Plan to curtail voting rights. without a quorum the bill could not be considered for final passage before the legislative session ended. the governor greg abbott can call a special election and hes threatening to withhold pay from lawmakers. this texas fight is part of a big national republican push to roll back voting options. our panel in studio with us, to that point, jessica gonzales, a member of the texas house, a part of the walkout. they frustrated republicans, the bill cannot become law ...

Parking garages, lawn care. not to mention professional men and women who operate and make that capital work like lawyers and representatives of counsel. and you can see the lieutenant governor, who also happens to be the speaker of the house, i would think before you maic that threat. >> and i have one of your quotes from "the washington post," in which you said breaking quorum, you described it, this thing to happen that led to the walkout, is about the equivalent of crawling on our knees begg...

Parliamentary procedure where you walked out of the session in order to stop the voting on it. whats next? what else do you have up your sleeve? >> well, well see what he puts on the call. so, whenever he calls us back for a special session, he sets the agenda. and those are the items that were limited to deal with. and im going to tell you, were not taking anything off the table when it comes down to exercising our rights under the rules, and so its yet to be seen what we will need to do when t...

Today texas democrats hinted they might take legal action to attempt to block a slew of new voting restriction pushed by republicansed at democrats were able to block the bills passage on sunday only by walking out of the capital building thus denying the legislative body the quorum required to pass any law but republicans have pledged to bring the issue and the law back up during a special session. cnns sara murray joins us live. what options do democrats in texas really have? >> everything for...

Without enough lawmakers present, Republicans were forced to declare the session over, missing a midnight deadline to pass the bill.

Now because the battle is far from over. dianne gallagher is in austin, texas, with the latest for us. where do we stand? >> reporter: erica, at this point the democrats are, to be very frank, elated today, the members that i have spoken with, the voting rights activists i have spoken with this morning and late last night said that this was the nuclear option and some of them still cant believe that the democrats actually used that breaking up the quorum, but this may be short-lived. republican ...

Miami area over the weekend. overnight texas democrats walk off the state house floor to stop a vote on a controversial election security bill. the lawmakers break quorum and protest. they say the last resort. accusing republicans of trying to silence them. governor greg abbott says he will call for a special summer session to get the bill passed. a racing veteran making history at the indy 500, watch. >> welcome at to the -- that is awesome. jillian: you heard it there guys still got it kicking...