• mrpants@sh.itjust.works
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    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.

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      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.

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      1 year ago

      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

      “Equally unenforceable” in this case means “enforceable until the courts get ahold of it after the election.”

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          I saw the rest of the sentence.

          and if they did there’d be lawsuits to get injunctions to stop the count until it’s resolved.

          I also know what happened last time, and it wasn’t that.