Rep. Nicole Collier, the Democratic state lawmaker who spent Monday night inside the Texas Capitol, is asking a court to let her exit the building, alleging she’s facing “illegal restraint by the government” after she was told she needs a police escort to leave.
The Fort Worth lawmaker and dozens of other Democrats left Texas earlier this month to delay a vote on a GOP-led plan to redraw the state’s congressional map.
The Democrats returned to Texas in recent days and they were given state police escorts to ensure they will show up when the state House convenes Wednesday, but Collier refused to sign a “permission slip” to be under escort by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Collier says she slept on the House floor overnight.
She’s a black woman in Texas. There’s a nonzero chance that she’d be assaulted if not murdered by the thug enforcers of fascism for not complying, public official or not.
In this case, NEITHER side is showboating. One side is committing the crime of unlawful detainment in furtherance of forcing through an authoritarian agenda and the other side is pointing out that she’s the victim of said crime and would prefer not to be illegally detained.
If only. Texas is one of if not THE most gerrymandered and otherwise politically rigged state.
There’s more registered Democrats than Republicans in Texas, yet Republicans have a lock on every branch of government due to ratfucking like the aforementioned gerrymandering and making it MUCH more difficult to participate in elections if you live in a blue district/neighborhood and/or are a racial minority.
In other words, if it WAS a popularity contest, the GOP would lose most elections. Because it’s actually a ratfucking contest, they “win” the vast majority of elections.
Nuance is difficult for you I see.
Not really, no. What nuances are you going to pretend I’m missing?