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Texas Legislature Continues Standoff Over Voting Rights Bill
Texas Democrat legislators are in their fourth day of a stand-off with their Republican counterparts to prevent a vote on voter integrity measures that Democrats are calling voter suppression efforts, waiting out the 30-day special session.
The special session was called by Governor Greg Abbott to ensure a vote on issues including voter integrity, border security, censorship, and the spread of critical race theory in schools.
On July 12, dozens of House Democrats walked out of the first day of the legislative special session and booked two charter flights to Washington, D.C., which prevented the quorum required to pass the voting legislation. Instead of voting on their state’s voting bills, they are in D.C. pushing for the passage of the U.S. Senate to pass S. 1, the sweeping legislation that would federalize elections.
Chairwoman of Congressional Black Caucus is arrested while protesting on Capitol Hill.
Representative Joyce Beatty, Democrat of Ohio, being taken into custody by U.S. Capitol Police officers in a Senate office building on Thursday.Credit.Jose Luis Magana/Associated Press
July 15, 2021
The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Representative Joyce Beatty, was arrested on Thursday on Capitol Hill along with eight activists who were demonstrating for voting rights.
“You can arrest me. You can’t stop me. You can’t silence me,” Ms. Beatty, an Ohio Democrat, wrote in a tweet after her arrest by the U.S. Capitol Police in the atrium of a Senate office building. A reporter on the scene noted on Twitter that her hands had been bound with zip ties before she was led away.
Texas faith leaders hold voting rights rally in Austin
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Kaelyn Flowers rests her head on the should of her mother, Ambra Phillips (cq) - both from Tyler, Texas - as they join others in prayer with a large group of clergy and supporters from around the state while gathering at the Texas Capitol to make a plea to legislators and to Gov. Greg Abbott about voting rights on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Several hundred people prayed and later marched around the Capitol to show their displeasure over recent voting rights legislation. Clergy also placed a letter at the door of the governor s office to request a visit with Gov. Abbott to discuss the legislation.Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Traveling to Philadelphia Tuesday, President Joe Biden laid out in apocalyptic terms the gravity of the threat to American democracy from Republican efforts to reform and rewrite state election laws. We are facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That s not hyperbole. Since the Civil War. The Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on Jan. 6.
Biden is inviting a comparison of what he faces with what Abraham Lincoln faced when he took office in 1861 with seven Southern states having voted to secede and Fort Sumter a month away.
The Republican threat to our democracy, implied Biden, is mortal.