Texas Democrats this week threw their legislature in disarray when they fled the state for Washington, D.C., in protest of an election reform bill currently being pushed by Republicans there.
The fleeing Democrats have cast the bill in an apocalyptic light as a full-scale attack on core voting rights, but the legislation, formed by one bill in the Texas House and one in the Texas Senate , is mostly a modest reform of the state’s voting rules, relative to both existing law and other, slightly more far-reaching bills passed by other state legislatures in recent months.
Republicans are trying to “make […]
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