Texas Democrats Flee To Washington To Block Voting Bill

In a bid to block Republicans from passing an elections bill that would impose new restrictions on voting, Democratic legislators in Texas have started fleeing the state.

Gatekeepers News reports that the Texas Constitution requires at least 100 of 150 state House members to be present in order to vote on any bills.

However, a Texas Democratic legislator stated that most of the 67 Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives are flying to Washington, DC, on two chartered aeroplanes.

“We’re not coming back,” State Representative Jasmine Crockett told the Houston Chronicle before she boarded her flight.

Gatekeepers News gathered that by leaving Texas, the Democrats hope to deny Republicans, who hold a majority, from bringing the bill to a vote this week.

Meanwhile, the United States President, Joe Biden will deliver a major speech on Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to advocate for voting rights following former President Donald Trump election lies.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Monday that Biden will “lay out the moral case for why denying the right to vote is a form of suppression and a form of silencing.”

She said the President “will redouble his commitment to using every tool at his disposal to continue to fight to protect the fundamental rights of Americans to vote.”

Republican state legislators have unleashed an “onslaught of voter suppression laws based on a dangerous and discredited conspiracy theory that culminated in assault on our Capitol”, Psaki said.

Biden will “call out the greatest irony of the ‘big lie’, which is that no election in our history has met such a high standard with over 80 judges, including those appointed by his predecessor, throwing out all challenges”, Psaki said.

Psaki called efforts by Trump and his supporters to overturn the election and enact voting restrictions after his defeat “the worst challenge to our democracy, since the Civil War”.

The new Texas bill, which is expected to pass the state Senate and, if it is eventually passed by the House, will be signed into law by Republican Governor Greg Abbott.