"Literally dozens of hours have been devoted by all the conferees, not just Republicans, going through line by line," @travisfortexas, R-Nacogdoches, said.
What's in the newest version of the sweeping elections bill? I break it down for you here. More details in the story here: dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
The Senate is discussing when/how they will vote on this massive voting bills.
Author @SenBryanHughes says he intends to ask the Senate to suspend its rules to 1) take up the bill earlier than planned & 2) allow the bill to touch on new subjects not in earlier versions. #txlege
@SenBryanHughes One provision that GOP sponsor @BriscoeCain added to this major voting bill that has not been STRIPPED: That which expressly banned partisan poll watchers from photographing or filming voters.
@SenBryanHughes@BriscoeCain Updated: The Senate just voted, along partisan lines, to suspend their own rules to take up the sweeping elections bill after 10pm tonight.
Read our story from earlier today on what's in the sweeping elections bill senators will debate tonight. Highlights:
- Impose uniform early voting hours statewide.
- Further empower partisan poll watchers.
- Make it easier to overturn elections. dallasnews.com/news/politics/…#txlege
ICYMI: Last year, the @dallasnews revealed TX police regularly hypnotize witnesses in criminal investigations, helping send dozens of men & women to prison — some to their deaths.
Yesterday, we learned state police ended their hypnosis program.
2/ The Department of Public Safety would not say its officers ended their hypnosis program due to our investigation, which showed hypnotizing witness can create false memories and lead to wrongful convictions.
No, they said they’d simply moved on to better investigative tools.
3/ But state police used hypnosis on investigations at least 8x last year. 3 involved murders, including 1 cold case.
Astonishingly, these officers said they gleaned new evidence at 7 of the 8 hypnosis sessions. Will they use this evidence to build their cases? They didn’t say.
@Dave_Boucher1@TxDPS H/t to @Grits4Breakfast for catching this news, revealed in a #txlege hearing — and for being one of the only people in Texas paying attention to police hypnosis before our series last year.
NEW: We obtained a deposition shedding new light on the links between Texas AG Ken Paxton and Nate Paul, the developer linked to corruption allegations.
But when Nate Paul was asked about Ken Paxton’s decision to investigate the developer’s allegations that the FBI violated his rights when it raided his home last year (over objections from top staff) his lawyer asked for a break. Why?