Texas Democrats leave state to try to stop GOP voting bill wtsp.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wtsp.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
If at first you donât succeed at subverting democracy, try, try again.
After losing severely in 2020, several Republican-led state legislatures have been busy passing new voting restrictions. Theyâre ostensibly to assure shaky voters who have trouble coping with the outcome, which was the result of âthe most secure election in history,â according to former President Trumpâs own elections officials â but upon examination, the provisions seem aimed more at preventing a repeat of their loss.
Provisions include rejecting votes cast in the wrong precinct, reducing the number of mail ballot drop boxes and forbidding the types of voting and the types of IDs that are used more heavily by African Americans and young people, who tend to vote for Democrats.
Dallas Examiner
Votes to thwart election bills now were needed even before 2020
Although some may question why the Texas Legislature is days away from the start of a special called session, some know the ground was made fertile when the votes were counted from the November 2020 Elections. One could say outcomes of Texas legislative races at least resemble what took place in Congress.
Democrats gained three seats in the U.S. Senate. With an effective 50-50 total in both caucuses, gridlock remains. Democrats picked up two seats in the Texas Senate, but saw the goal line again move to guarantee success on controversial and partisan issues for the majority party.
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After three years in prison, Bill Cosby, the man whose sexual assault conviction was overturned due to a procedural matter, is a free man.
When a district attorney in Pennsylvania made a deal not to prosecute Cosby on criminal charges back in 2005, Cosby couldn’t ‘take the Fifth’ in a civil deposition on the same charges. So, Cosby simply told the truth that essentially, he used quaaludes and alcohol as his M.O. to have non-consensual sex with women. The deposition should never have been used in 2015 when a new D.A. decided to go after Cosby criminally. But it convicted Cosby, who was in prison until the Pennsylvania Supreme Court decided a deal was a deal.