BREAKING

Dem members of the TX House Committee on Elections write Attorney General Garland and ask the DOJ Civil Rights Division to monitor future proceedings of the committee after the chair tried to force a vote on a sweeping voter suppression bill with no notice or hearing

The full letter is available here: https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2021/04/SB7_DOJ.pdf

You can get more detail about what went on today (including video) in my thread from earlier today https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1387843651087310854

I'll be monitoring this situation closely. The bills in Texas are perhaps the worst in the country, creating a bunch of new "crimes" and banning forms of voting favored in counties with large Black populations.

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As a reminder, nearly all corporations -- save @AmericanAir and @Dell -- have remained "neutral" on Texas' draconian voter suppression bills.

This includes many dozens of countries that have committed publicly to opposing laws that restrict voting. https://popular.info/p/texas-voter-suppression-bills-are