As a citizen of The Friendship State, I like my governor to look like that ALL the time.
Only five more minutes until a certain orangeorangutan criticises the Judge based on her being female, and other racist sexist grounds. Why cant the White House guy, see how much more than him she knows, that’s why she is a judge.But t-rump will any minute now offer his demeaning opinion unaware that she knows 1000 times more about law and voting than he does.
The governor looks like he is having "a hemorrhoidal incident."
YEA! Making voting less stressful is a very good thing. At least in my city ( San Antonio), they are looking to improve the voting machines that will include paper trail. All signs are hopeful that the State will be moving to Blue.
“SB 5 does not meaningfully expand the types of photo IDs that can qualify, even though the Court was clearly critical of Texas having the most restrictive list in the country,”
Not as restrictive as they’d like, though, I’m sure. If the GOP had its way, there’d be one form of ID accepted nationwide: country club membership ID (and with donnie in charge, that be only drumpf-branded clubs).
When even the 5th Circuit says “Whoa your horses” you know you’ve gone too far.
A well-deserved FU to Governor Abbot. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy…
And Donnie will attack the judge’s heritage and patriotism in 3 … 2 … 1 …
A few days ago when a threat went OT about Ima Hogg, a truly remarkable woman who happened to be Texan, for a moment I was tempted to take back all I’ve aid about Texas and Texans… but then I see a picture of the Guv or AG Paxton, and that reinforces my opiinon about Texans
Who would have thought it possible that the last two governors could each surpass their predecessors in baseness? I guess anyone looking at the pipeline, really, but Jeez!
So is Abbot doing an homage to Barry Morse?
Texas was under the pre-clearance scheme until a 2013 Supreme Court decision invalidated the VRA formula that had put it and other states under it.
However, another provision of the VRA, Section 3, allows for states to be put under pre-clearance if they are found to have passed voting laws with a discriminatory intent.
I might pee myself laughing if overreach puts TX and some other states under Section 3 oversight. It won’t mean anything until we have a Dem president, but I’ll take my laugh as early as possible.
I’d like to see the Wisconsin ID law brought to court for age discrimination. The WI law was designed to make university student IDs invalid for the purpose of voting ID. I don’t recall the exact rule, but I think it said that a photo ID had to have at least a 5-year expiration date to be acceptable for voting.
Why are Republicans all about restricting our Constitutional rights? I need to buy a gun to protect my right to vote! That seems to be the only “right” that matters to them.
I’ve asked this before, but if preclearance means that DoJ approval results in a legal presumption that the law is OK, it could be a serious problem given the current DoJ.
That and the “right” to prohibit Democrats from voting and/or taking office. They can’t win fairly so they cheat, lie and steal.
So the Texas GOP and its leadership, decry large government and taxes in general, while at the same time asking that current gov’t services be privatized wherever possible. Then the state offices, have less money, while the state keeps growing. So texas gives less money to its infrastructure per person, then ask the dept that run these institutions to implement to enforce much stricter, much less open policy with less money, and increases the burden of risk to each person voting (whether they are legit or not, because you could have a different name on your state DL, than your voter ID because you didn’t do them at the same time, or because you went by “Becky” on one, and "Rebecca’ on the other, but our state GOP wants to make so you can’t vote, even if you are a citizen, for a clerical error or small personal mistake while attaining valid state issued ID). The GOP keeps hammering the idea that illegals are voting but don’t have a prosecutorial record to back that up. So here we are spending precious (and fewer per capita dollars as the state grows) money enforcing a law that might disqualify Americans and Texans to go after a federal issue (illegal immigration and its’ possible voters, which btw there is very little scant evidence to support). It’s illogical and not any way to solver the issues facing Texas let alone any of the cities that make it up.
There party is a dumpster fire of bad ideas, fear, and anger. The GOP has no clothes in Texas.
Pre-clearance just means that a state must get a DOJ okay on voting-related changes before they are implemented. A DOJ okay doesn’t prevent anyone from challenging the changes in court.
I don’t know how pre-clearance affects the ability of a later administration to challenge the changes.
You are writing as if the GOP had some purpose in this other than holding on to political power for itself and economic power for its donor class. They are perfectly willing to spend as much state money as it takes in pursuit of those goals. The fact that it’s bad for the state as a whole really doesn’t enter into the calculation.