Twenty-six days into refusing to come home, Texas Democrats who have twice now blocked a GOP voting bill face a choice: whether to go for Round 3.
no doubt won national attention and piled scrutiny on the GOP's push to rewrite voting laws following the 2020 election. Setting up camp in a Washington hotel, Texas Democrats spent nearly a month meeting with congressional leaders, raised hundreds of thousands of dollars and torpedoed new voting laws back home for a second time.after their dramatic arrival in Washington slowed their momentum.
Whether or not Democrats this weekend return to Texas, they have achieved becoming the face of a national battle over voting rights, set off by former President Donald Trump's false claims that the 2020 election was stolen. But many of the same obstacles to victory remain. Of the 17 issues Abbott has ordered the GOP-controlled statehouse to take up over the next 30 days, a new one stands out: a measure “relating to legislative quorum" requirements.
That would raise the prospect of Democrats facing arrest in an effort to compel their attendance in the House chamber, a threat they have mostly shrugged off. They also insist they wouldn't be coming home empty-handed. The holdout was not without its stumbles. Shortly after they arrived, several Democrats tested positive for COVID-19, limiting their in-person meetings. And although Democrats met twice with Vice President Kamala Harris, they never met with Biden. On Thursday, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaski said if the legislative calendar required Democrats to be in Texas, “we would support that.”
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