HOUSTON - Had Democrats in the Texas House not staged an eleventh-hour walk-out in the waning moments of the regular session, Governor Greg Abbott may well have thought differently about the necessity of a special session.
That "nuclear option" deployed by the minority party was aimed at SB7, the Republicans' "election integrity bill" aimed, they claimed, at "restoring" faith in the democratic process.
Aside from out-lawing pandemic-driven innovations like, drive-thru voting and 24-hour polling places, the measure imposed new restrictions which Democrats labeled unvarnished "suppression".
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Pushing election bills forward in Texas legislature session
Houston's Sunday morning political debate show! The panel talks about the continuing effort to lock down election rules across the state.