The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled yesterday that portions of Texas Senate Bill 1, adopted in September 2021, violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court found that parts of S.B. 1 require officials to reject mail-in ballot applications and mail-in ballots based on errors or omissions that are not material in determining whether voters are qualified under Texas law to vote or cast a mail ballot.
And now Republicans will put forth another bill that’s even worse and the courts will wait until after the 2024 election to reverse it.
No. The Texas legislature meets in January of odd numbered years. They can call special sessions but they can’t make a worse law as it’ll be equally unenforceable and if they did there’d be lawsuits to get injunctions to stop the count until it’s resolved.
There’s likely to be appeals of this ruling though.
Anyways try to be more positive. This is a win.
It is a penalty kick at best, not a win.
Requiring Texas to get this shit pre-approved was the win, then SCOTUS said they weren’t currently discriminating and removed that. Texas immediately started right back up of course, since the preclearance was the only thing stopping them.
Requiring everything to be relitigated over and over when there is a clear history of discrimination just enables the discrimination.
“Equally unenforceable” in this case means “enforceable until the courts get ahold of it after the election.”
See the rest of the sentence.
I saw the rest of the sentence.
I also know what happened last time, and it wasn’t that.