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 e...
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.
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.
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."
What happens when Texas throws out the ballots anyway? You gonna force them to redo an entire election and take out the illegitimate politicians? Or is some director of some government office gonna get sued for a big fine and thats it? It remains to be seen if modern day US politics is even calable of removing someone once they're elected, so how do you even enforce this?
Probably ideally if they refuse is the national guard goes in and ensures a free and fair election, and people preventing it get arrested. Will that actually happen though? Idk.