New voting laws shaping Texas primaries - CBS News

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Early voting has started for the Texas primaries, and new voter ID laws are already causing issues for some voters. Thousands of mail-in ballots have been rejected over the new requirements. Chuck Rocha, host of the podcast "Nuestro," talks with Major Garrett on "Red and Blue" about how the new law may impact the election, and the shift happening among Hispanic voters in Texas. Aired on 02/16/2022.

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1. Will the Supreme Court stand by and allow the Republican ploy?

Let's see if I got this straight. Throughout the country, Republicans are racing to enact last minute legal road blocks to fair and open voting, (for the demographic they don't like), before this November's election.

But the Supreme Court won't allow legal complaints to "interfere" with the coming election, so we should expect that it's too late to hope for the Supreme Court to rule on the various fair election petitions coming their way?

Can anyone out there, explain it with a bit more clarity, perhaps even a link to other informative articles?

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2. Lawrence O'Donnell reported on a real life example:

'This Is Jim Crow, 2.0': Texas Voter Blasts GOP Voter Suppression - The Last Word - MSNBC
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017712956

Pam Gaskin, a Texas voter whose mail ballot application was rejected twice due to confusing changes from a new GOP voter suppression law, tells Lawrence O’Donnell why it was important to her to keep fighting until she finally got her mail ballot. Voting is a “blood-bought right,” she said. Rep. Colin Allred adds that it’s “ridiculous” that voters are dealing with these restrictions in 2022. Aired on 02/16/2022.