Greg Abbot, the current governor of Texas, is calling a special session of the state legislature to pass oppressive voting laws. He did that the minute it was known the US Senate was going to defeat the voting rights bill.
The Republicans are playing a dangerous game with voting rights as if the people voting are the problem and not them. To the Republicans, including Moscow Mitch, this is politics. There is no such thing as governing with the Republicans.
By Mike DeBonis
Senate Republicans (click here) banded together Tuesday to block a sweeping Democratic bill that would revamp the architecture of American democracy, dealing a grave blow to efforts to federally override dozens of GOP-passed state voting laws.
The test vote, which would have cleared the way to start debate on voting legislation, failed 50-50 on straight party lines — 10 votes short of the supermajority needed to advance legislation in the Senate.
It came after Democrat after Democrat delivered warnings about the dire state of American democracy, blaming former president Donald Trump for undermining its foundations by challenging the 2020 election results, which, in turn, prompted his supporters in numerous state legislatures to pass new laws rolling back ballot access.
“Are we going to let reactionary state legislatures drag us back into the muck of voter suppression? Are we going to let the most dishonest president in history continue to poison our democracy from the inside?” Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said before the vote. “Or will we stand up to defend what generations of Americans have organized, marched, fought and died for — the sacred, sacred right to vote?”...
Abbot signed into law a bill that changes the history of racism in the state of Texas. The Republicans are introducing confusion to USA history. That is exactly what they want. What kind of power is this? What gives anyone the idea that history is supposed to reflect a political ideology? I tell you who does these things. An incompetent dictator does things like this. There is no benevolence left to the Republicans, only a desire to rewrite history and destroy the USA Constitution.
There is every reason to impeach Greg Abbot, but, that won't happen because the majority of the Texas legislature passed the bill in the first place. There would not be enough votes to impeach.
June 22, 2021
By Isabella Zou
Gov. Greg Abbott (click here) signed into law a bill last week that restricts how current events and America’s history of racism can be taught in Texas schools. It’s been commonly referred to as the “critical race theory” bill, though the term “critical race theory” never appears in it.
But in signing the bill, Abbott said “more must be done” to “abolish critical race theory in Texas,” and announced that he would ask the Legislature to address the issue during a special session this summer....
