Senator Wendy Davis is pretty cool [On a somewhat lighter note]

[Mr.Bookworm]

She's filibustering that godawful Texas abortion bill that cannot be accurately described with words, only incoherent angry sputtering.

If she keeps the floor until midnight (she's been going for over 10 hours now), the Senate closes and won't be able to vote on it, and it'll die a well deserved death for the time being.

Here's a livestream, if anyone wants to keep an eye on it:

[McTahr]

And now it's tense. They keep pinging her for relevancy and she's down to her last warning. Two hours and fifteen minutes left, if she gets past this latest point of order. At the very least she's getting a bit of a break during the deliberations.

[Aldurin]

Relevancy rules are dumb, I want every politician to write their own version of an upcoming Disney movie when they filibuster.

[McTahr]

She got the third warning. They're nitpicking it as best they can, but they've basically shut her down short of a miracle.

Best part: The chant led by the crowd, and the woman who shouted "That's bullshit!" when they declared it sustained.

Wait, Sen. Watson appealed, and forced a debate on that. Ideally he can carry this the rest of the way.

Edit/update: He's still "going". GOP tried to make a motion to table him, other dems stalled with parliamentary inquiries, and he (Watson) found a rule that says they can't table him until he debates. They've killed another forty minutes this way, and if he gets the debate it might just keep going 'til midnight. Hour-fifteen left.

E2: Watson held them up for over an hour, aside from a few questions, they almost forced the vote. In the last ten minutes they've been shut down by cheering from the gallery, the noise is keeping them from taking an accurate vote, so they can't force it. The people themselves joined in on the filibuster, just a lil' bit. Kinda fantastic.

E3: And I think they just forced it anyway.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Good news, everybody!

The official clock ran out on Texas lawmakers overnight, which effectively killed a bill that would have dramatically restricted abortion in the nation's second most populous state. Hours of chaos and confusion in Austin finally lifted as Texas Senate leaders decided that the vote on Senate Bill 5 did not clear a constitutionally-mandated hurdle that it pass before midnight.

[Bells]

The American law system can sometimes make for a very suspensiful thriller of action and agony, its like watching a reality show where someone in the house is an actual murderer waiting for an opening and only the people at home know who it is.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Originally Posted by Bells

The American law system can sometimes make for a very suspensiful thriller of action and agony, its like watching a reality show where someone in the house is an actual murderer waiting for an opening and only the people at home know who it is.

[McTahr]

Originally Posted by Shyria Dracnoir

Good news, everybody!

Nice. There were a lot of sites posting as of the 12:02 vote that they'd passed it, and they'd completed the roll to vote on whether to vote on it during the noise, which was a bit confusing, but the roll to vote itself got blocked out until 12:02, and thus was not legitimate.

[Mr.Bookworm]

Alright!

So as I understand, one of two things could happen now. The first thing is that the governor could call another special, 30-day session, where they could vote on it. This may or may not happen, because doing so would piss off a lot of the senators.

The second thing is that it's just dead and they'll have to wait another year to try to fuck over everyone with ovaries.

Unfortunately, on a shit-heap awful note, remember this?

Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

So, guess how long it took to prove that fucking the VRA over was an awful idea that everyone involved should be goddamn ashamed of?

Two hours!

Texas cracked open a cold one and started oppressin' them some minorities.

Senator Davis' district was eliminated because gerrymandering. Also, racism.

Hopefully she can take this bit of national spotlight and use it to keep being cool.

[Hatake Kakashi]

Originally Posted by Mr.Bookworm

Alright!

So as I understand, one of two things could happen now. The first thing is that the governor could call another special, 30-day session, where they could vote on it.

In a state run by misogynistic fucktards, it was only a matter of when, not if.