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Is a tactic that -- listen, texas democrats did this in 2003 ahead of a radical partisan redistricting of the state of texas. and they left the state and as i said, governor at the time said state troopers after them and it was a huge standoff and it was a big deal and ultimately they redistricting plan went through. but the eyes of the nation were on it. in this case, they haven't just fled the state because that denies the quorum. they have fled the state specifically to come to washington because washington is the one place this disaster in texas and this disaster in every other state where...

Can be fixed. if there is a federal voting rights backstop at the federal level, then states will not have the option to bring their voting rights down below a floor set at the federal level. it doesn't mean the federal government will run elections or that every state will run them exactly the same way. it will just mean there is a 'te floor below which voter lo suppression will not be allowed to sink. that is why the texas democrats are in washington. not just because they needed to get out of the state. they did. but they could have gone anywhere. they are in washington because the for the ...