Texas really hates Democracy

[Tom4784]

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[DouglasS]

I can’t read that article but I love Texas, such a great place :clap1:

[arista]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/us/politics/texas-voting-rights-bill.html

That'll teach young/non-white people to make an impact in voting numbers!:fist:



At least the UK Times gives you some words
before saying pay to view

You could paste a bit?

[Tom4784]

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[arista]

Basically Texas has passed a bill that makes it harder for people to vote and it specifically targets non-white people. 24 hour voting, drive in voting and temporary voting locations have all been forbidden by the new law. All were methods that non-white people made heavy use of, and it was those voters that made the difference in the election.

There's also a bunch of new needless penalties for poll workers that don't actually do anything to prevent voter fraud but does circumvent democracy by making it harder for people who would vote democrat to vote.

Texas hates democracy because it seeks to limit who can partake in democratic decisions and how.


Yes, I understand you now
watched some debates on CNN HD USA

And changing Laws is dangerous
Democracy is on Hold, there.


A link from some months back,
but the start of all this
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/30/texas-republicans-sb7-restrictive-voting-law

[Swan]

Poverty in Texas is 79% white......

[Captain.Remy]

Poverty in Texas is 79% white......

And yet that doesn't make it OK for them to still pass this bill.

[Livia]

The people who came up with this legislation can be voted out. If only everyone had that opportunity in every country.

[The Slim Reaper]

The people who came up with this legislation can be voted out. If only everyone had that opportunity in every country.

It's not really that easy when R's gerrymander their districts into oblivion to ensure constant and guaranteed re-election. For example, look at this district:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Texas_US_Congressional_District_35_%28since_2013%2 9.tif/lossless-page1-1200px-Texas_US_Congressional_District_35_%28since_2013%2 9.tif.png

Or this one:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Texas_US_Congressional_District_2_%28since_2013%29 .tif/lossless-page1-1200px-Texas_US_Congressional_District_2_%28since_2013%29 .tif.png

So voting them out has been completely taken off the table as anything approaching a realistic option.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Full details of the bill can be found here:

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/30/texas-voting-restrictions-bill/

[Tom4784]

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[arista]

CNN HD USA Feed Online

Just Showed the Gov. Of Texas
Signing the Restrictions in Voting
into National Texas Law


Dezzy's thread is now so true

[arista]

A Judge has
now overruled the Texas Block on abortion

Women can now have a legal abortion.


Ref:CNN HD

[Niamh.]

A Judge has
now overruled the Texas Block on abortion

Women can now have a legal abortion.


Ref:CNN HD

Great news

[bots]

it's likely to be overturned on appeal, so it's not over yet

[arista]

it's likely to be overturned on appeal, so it's not over yet



Yes very possible

[bots]

A US appeals court has temporarily reinstated Texas's near total ban on abortions.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed to a request from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that an injunction imposed against the law be lifted.

On Wednesday, a lower court had temporarily blocked the bill for the "offensive deprivation" of the constitutional right to an abortion.

The restrictive law bans all abortions at about six weeks of pregnancy.

It gives any individual the right to sue anyone involved with providing or facilitating an abortion after foetal cardiac activity is detected, and makes no exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.

On Wednesday District Judge Robert Pitman granted a request by the Biden administration to prevent enforcement of the law while its legality was being challenged. He held that women had been "unlawfully prevented from exercising control over their lives in ways that are protected by the Constitution".

However, Texas officials immediately appealed against the ruling, which the New Orleans-based, conservative-leaning Fifth Circuit court has agreed to set aside. It ordered the justice department to respond to its ruling by Tuesday.

In a statement following the latest ruling, Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, called on the Supreme Court to "step in and stop this madness".

"Patients are being thrown back into a state of chaos and fear, and this cruel law is falling hardest on those who already face discriminatory obstacles in health care, especially Black, Indigenous, and other people of colour, undocumented immigrants, young people, those struggling to make ends meet, and those in rural areas," she said.

"The courts have an obligation to block laws that violate fundamental rights."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58853859