Careful With Those Emails
It is flat out no secret that the Voter ID bill in Texas is nothing more than a cheap trick to keep the elderly, disabled, and poor from voting.
However, now we might get to see the emails between members of the Lege about the Voter ID bill.
Any legislators’ emails that reveal a discriminatory motive for passing a 2011 Texas voter ID law, signed by Gov. Rick Perry (R), could soon come to light thanks to a federal judge’s recent ruling.
U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos issued an order late last weekdirecting the state of Texas to turn over legislators’ communications about the bill to the U.S. plaintiffs, on a confidential basis, by Tuesday. According to Texas, 189 state legislators had asserted legislative privilege over the documents to try to prevent this outcome.
Now, I know what “on a confidential basis” means. However, you can bet your best pair of pink boots that the really juicy ones will find their way into court records and then be read aloud on the corner of Main and Capitol in downtown Houston with a bullhorn during the Go Texan parade because, bygawd, I’m gonna do it.
Hell, those emails might as well plan to make the Book of the Month Club because they will making cahooting an Olympic sport.
But didn’t the Roberts Court determine a major section of the Voting Rights Act was superfluous? Thanks again John, Clarence and the rest of the clowns. /sarcasm
1@PKM: Clarence never thinks at all; not capable of it!
go Go GO JJ and I’ll spell you on the bullhorn!! Perry’s gonna go down in flames yet, dammit!
2Kin I borry the bullhorn when you’re done with it?
3Juanita you are so funny girl – good that you like to stand up to the BS.
4And I volunteer to spell Aggieland Liz. Go, JJ!
5As much as I hate the Texas heat, I’m gonna pull up chair, open an umbrella & listen to ya reading those emails, girl. I’ll bring ya lots of iced tea, whisky, or whatever soothes your tongue to help ya keep talking.
6Show those cahooters what FREE SPEECH really is.
7Somebody bring back up batteries for JJ’s bull horn cuz I have a feeling she’s gonna need ’em real bad!
8189? Legislators asking for “privilege”?
mmmm there are 150 in the House and 31 in the Senate. Who are those other 8? I KNEW we had Republicans from Oklahoma in our House.
9Nelva Gonzalez Ramos. My kind of US district judge.
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