Judd Legum

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Defunding the legislative branch until they ban voting before 1PM on Sundays is quite something — PolitiTweet.org

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Abbott says he’ll veto funds for the Texas legislature until it restricts voting based on Trump’s lies — PolitiTweet.org

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4. One simple thing corporations could do is commit not to fund Texas legislators who vote for discriminatory voting restrictions Corporations have donated MILLIONS to the legislators behind this bill https://t.co/rX5e4iByKb https://t.co/XD4hIgVYwA — PolitiTweet.org

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3. This bill will be back, however, sooner or later. And it gives corporations another chance Will they continue to issue easily ignored statements? Or will they commit to taking action? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ACLUTx @BlackVotersMtr @MOVE_texas @TXCivilRights @CCauseTexas 2. Corporations, however, grew conspicuously quiet as SB7 barrelled toward passage @AmericanAir and @Dell had issued strong statements weeks ago A couple of dozen other corps signed onto a broad letter But they were all quiet as this bill's fate was being decided — PolitiTweet.org

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1. The defeat of the Texas' voter suppression bill, which continued to get worse throughout the legislative process, did not happen on its own. It's due to the relentless work of activists. A few: @ACLUTx @BlackVotersMtr @MOVE_texas @TXCivilRights @CCauseTexas — PolitiTweet.org

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10. UPDATE Democrats defeated the bill by breaking quorum, denying Republicans the ability to hold a vote before midnight — PolitiTweet.org

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9. @travisfortexas never addressed the restriction on Sunday voting and refuses to take any questions on the changes. Democracy in action! — PolitiTweet.org

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8. The point of order was withdrawn. I'm not sure why. Now @travisfortexas is going over the "out of bounds" portion of the bill. Notably, he has not addressed the provision that bans voting on Sunday until 1PM. No one has ever explained why that is necessary. — PolitiTweet.org

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@andreazelinski @travisfortexas @BriscoeCain Do you know why the point of order was withdrawn? — PolitiTweet.org

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7. Now that technical point-of-order must be considered by the parliamentarian, eating up precious time. It's after 8PM now in Austin. Republicans have less than four hours left to pass this bill before it dies — PolitiTweet.org

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6. Because the conference committee added in new voting restrictions that weren't considered by either chamber, the House must pass an out-of-bounds resolution to proceed This resolution was challenged in a point-of-order by a Texas Democrat as insufficiently detailed — PolitiTweet.org

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5. You can watch a livestream of the proceedings here: https://t.co/vCLz41Z8Wq — PolitiTweet.org

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4. An earlier version of this bill, SB7, referred to efforts to maintain the "purity of the ballot box" -- which was literally the same language used to justify Jim Crow restrictions That language has been removed but the substance is the same or worse — PolitiTweet.org

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3. Republicans appointed an all-white conference committee to negotiate the differences between the House and Senate bills and the committee added a provision, not considered in either chamber, to ban voting on Sundays until 1PM A surgical strike against "Souls to the Polls" — PolitiTweet.org

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House Republicans in Texas are apparently trying to convince Democrats to allow them to pass the bill tonight because the gov could call a special session later and make the bill worse But the bill is already very bad and Dems say they aren't buying it https://t.co/9lz1jUc5vr — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE It's 7:40 PM local time in Austin, Texas The legislature has LESS THAN 5 HOURS to pass its voter suppression bill House Dems have some procedural moves that give them a shot to kill the bill by blocking a vote until midnight I'll keep this thread updated the best I can — PolitiTweet.org

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@tmillsNC He thinks she is not an objective journalist because she denigrates the contributions of whites to the civil rights movement. It was his decision to make that argument to the UNC journalism school officials, not mine — PolitiTweet.org

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@KDbyProxy @Will_Bunch @john_drescher He's not influential with officials at the UNC journalism school because he is a "veteran journalist." There are many veteran journalists. Some of them are faculty at the school and unanimously supported tenure for @nhannahjones. He's influential because he's a donor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@KDbyProxy @Will_Bunch @john_drescher What is your point? Why does it make a difference if he’s a journalist or a “hedge fund guy” — PolitiTweet.org

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@tomscocca Really stunning. He is admitting that the principle he supports is pretending to be neutral while privately using his power to pursue an agenda. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a really good example of what people mean by journalistic "neutrality." For Hussman it means publicly claiming to be neutral while privately arguing that a Pulitizer Prize winner should not be awarded tenure because she doesn't give enough credit to white people — PolitiTweet.org

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These statements were made by Hussman Jr. in private emails but he refuses to discuss them publicly because he "considers himself a working journalist" and "I don’t believe I ought to speak out as a journalist on a matter of public controversy," — PolitiTweet.org

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@nhannahjones "Long before Nikole Hannah Jones won her Pulitzer Prize, courageous white southerners risking their lives standing up for the rights of blacks were winning Pulitzer prizes, too,” Hussman Jr wrote to school officials https://t.co/UEZRU96qRc — PolitiTweet.org

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The top donor to UNC's journalism argued against tenure for @nhannahjones because her writing "denigrates the courageous efforts of many white Americans" The donor, Walter Hussman Jr., got his way https://t.co/UEZRU96qRc — PolitiTweet.org

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I have no idea how likely this is but the GOP has a relatively narrow margin in the Texas house and the secret negotiations made the voter suppression bill that came out of conference committee even worse that what went in. — PolitiTweet.org

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UPDATE: The Texas Senate “debated” this bill in the middle of the night and then passed it 18-13 early this morning. House vote expected today. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @LetAmericaVote: This Texas bill to restrict the right to vote is one of the worst ones yet. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Three weeks ago, a Madison County jury found Huntsville police officer William Darby guilty of murder. Three weeks have passed since that verdict — and he’s still an employee with the Huntsville Police Department." https://t.co/gbZjUlg4Tp — PolitiTweet.org

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13. NOTE This bill needs to be voted on by the Texas Senate by Sunday at midnight. Hard stop. No exceptions. The Texas Senate does not technically have a filibuster, but once recognized a Senator does not have to yield the floor In 1977, a Senator spoke for 47 hours straight — PolitiTweet.org