Thousands of Americans rallied around the country on Saturday to demand voting rights protections in the face of a nationwide conservative campaign that’s culminating this year in a wave of voting restrictions in Republican-led states.
Two days later, Republicans in Texasthe most contentious and protracted battle thus far in our roughly year-long national confrontation over access to the ballot -- that most foundational of Democratic rights. The Texas legislature on Tuesday sent a slate of voting restrictions, which will almost certainly place a disproportionate burden on minority voters, to the desk of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who is expected to sign the bill.
"To tell other duly-elected members who represent Texans not to talk about a subject highly germane to the bill, and in a legislative body where there's a First Amendment right specifically for political speech -- that was just brazen and incomprehensible," Blank said.
Even before passing Senate Bill 1, Texas had curbed voting rights in other recent laws, including a provision making it harder to get mail ballots for medical reasons.as part of the racist legacy of U.S. voter suppression by a range of advocacy groups and Texas Democrats.
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