âHave you no shame?â Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning.
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âThe 21st-Century Jim Crow Assault Is Real,â Biden Says
President Biden spoke out forcefully against Republican efforts to curtail voting rights across the country and vowed that his administration would seek to limit their impact.
Some things in America should be simple and straightforward. Perhaps the most important of those things, the most fundamental of those things, is the right to vote. The right to vote freely. The democratic threshold is liberty. With it, anythingâs possible without it, nothing, nothing. And for our democracy in the work and to deliver our work and our people, itâs up to all of us to protect that right. This year alone, 17 states have enacted, not just proposed but enacted, 28 new laws to make it harder for Americans to vote, not to mention â and catch this â nearly 400 additional bills Republican members of the state legislatures are tryin
The Texas House voted Tuesday to send for Texas Legislators who split town in private planes to go to Washington to demand that Congress pass the For The People Act. Their intent is to block the passage of a GOP priority elections bill authorizing the use of arrest warrants if needed to compel attendance, Statesman.com reported.
Attorney General: Paxton Releases Statement on House Democrats Failing Democracy and Fleeing the State
Attorney General Ken Paxton made the following statement after Texas House Democrats fled the state rejecting their elected duty during the July 2021 Special Legislative Session:
Texas House Democrats making the rounds in D.C. Texas House Democrats met a second time with Vice President Kamala Harris
President Biden defends voting rights as Texas Democrats fight GOP voting bill
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the second time in less than a month, Vice President Kamala Harris met Tuesday with many of the Texas House Democrats who had already broken quorum once before over proposed voting restrictions.
“She said we are making history in the same line as the advocates of the 1960′s,” said State Rep. Philip Cortez of San Antonio, who wasn’t among the initial group last month.
Newt Gingrich says Biden s attacks on GOP state voting reforms are the greatest threat to the nation since the Civil War as Greg Abbott accuses President of spreading misinformation
Newt Gingrich blasted President Biden s claims that GOP-led efforts to overhaul voting laws pose greatest threat to the United States since the Civil War I believe this is the greatest domestic threat US has faced to freedom since the Civil War, and the threat is entirely in the Democratic Party, ex-speaker said
Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott joined the fray, accusing Biden of purposefully spreading misinformation and choosing to ignore the facts
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Texas state senators passed a GOP-backed voting reform bill Tuesday night after Democrats fled the state in an effort to delay the passage of another bill in the House, which also looked to make changes to current voting laws.
In a partisan 18-4 vote, all 18 Senate Republicans voted to pass the bill aimed at ensuring election integrity, according to Fox News.
The Senate was able to reach a quorum and pass the bill after four Senate Democrats joined Republicans for the vote.
Eight Democratic senators were absent after they joined House Democrats in departing from the state for Washington, D.C. to block the election reform bills. A ninth senator is expected to join them in the nation s capital.