Thread by @digiphile

This bill (#SB7) was drafted in secret, expanded to include voting restrictions, & rushed through the Texas Senate on Saturday under suspension of rules, without time for Texans to read the legislation:
texastribune.org/2021/05/30/tex…
The @VP identified it as an attack on voting rights

https://twitter.com/vp/status/1398818594159566851

President @JoeBiden said this Texas bill “attacks the sacred right to vote” & connected it to a broader “assault on democracy” that “disproportionately targets Black & Brown Americans.
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

“It’s wrong & un-American.”-@POTUS

🚨🇺🇸🚨“language was also inserted in the bill making it easier to overturn an election, no longer requiring evidence that fraud actually altered an outcome of a race but rather only that enough ballots were illegally cast that could have made a difference”
washingtonpost.com/politics/texas…

In which @FoxNews reports the Texas Senate’s action as “election reform” & then somewhat remarkably cites Trump's “false claims of widespread fraud” & that “nonpartisan investigations of previous elections have found that voter fraud is exceedingly rare”
foxnews.com/politics/texas…