Why Texas Democrats are doomed to fail
CNN
The visuals were powerful. Two chartered planes taking off from Texas -- and landing in the nation's capital -- filled with Democratic legislators fleeing a Republican attempt to pass one of the nation's most stringent voting bills.
But the political reality for those Democrats -- and for voting rights advocates around the country -- is significantly grimmer: There is almost no way for this strategy to succeed. What Democrats did in leaving the state is rob Republicans in the Texas legislature of a quorum -- a term signifying when there are enough members present for the legislative body to do its business.More Related News