I have said time and time again that Texas needs an every-year legislature, that it’s ridiculous that a state of more than 20 million people has a legislative body that just meets every other year. I agree that voter ID is bad law, at least as written by Texas Republicans, and should be killed, but I don’t like all the collateral legislative damage.
That said, with a solution like New Mexico’s, for example, of a shorter term in even-numbered years, Texas wouldn’t have this mess of too many bills crammed on a tight legislative calendar in the first place.
Beyond THAT, though, lets not forget that the Texas GOP brought this on itself by suspending the Senate’s two-thirds rule to pass voter ID there in the first place.
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