.MaddowBlog: The good news for democracy is that Texas Democrats derailed an odious voter-suppression bill. The bad news is, the victory may be fleeting.
in unambiguous terms. The proposal represented"an assault on democracy," the president said, adding,"It's wrong and un-American."editorial
Republicans in the Lone Star State went to great lengths to craft a bill, negotiated in secret, that attacked the franchise in a multifaceted way, making it more difficult to cast absentee ballots, while curtailing early voting, banning drive-through voting, empowering partisan poll watchers, and even discouraging Texans from transporting voters to polling places.
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