"Minority Rule"

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(06-01-2021, 02:49 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: According to everything I've read on this subject the legislation needed to be passed by midnight on that date in order to take effect for the next election.  So no, it cannot be easily overridden and while they may eventually "win out" there was irreversible change, or lack of change, due o this action. 


Which, again, is a subjective criteria.  What you consider to be such an act may not be what someone else considers such an act.  So who gets to decide when such an act is warranted or not? 

Their session ended (because state legislatures tend to have very short sessions) but the governor of Texas can call a special session whenever they want and he already made it clear he was going to because a number of things he wanted did not pass. So they can still approve it in time to stop thousands of minorities from voting in their next election. 


Of course, they could have attempted to pass this before their final day and could have chosen to not do it behind closed doors without any Democrats. They could have chosen not to suspend their rules to force a vote on a bill less than a day after it was introduced. 

There's a lot of things they could have done to ensure that their anti-POC voting bill had plenty of time to pass despite Democratic antics, but they ****** up and now they have to wait a few weeks before they pass it. But, yea, something something minority rule this is bad, let the majority stop Black churches from organizing early voting events. 

We all have different morals. That's reality. Whoever is in power gets to force their morals on the rest of us so long as it does not violate established law, as interpreted by our courts, which were mostly appointed and approved by a minority (oh ****, minority rule again, dammmmnnniittt). Some of us can chose to hold onto universal principles that look down on discrimination and infringing upon basic human rights. Others can hold principles that do not respect those things. They're wrong in my eyes, and I am wrong in theirs.