Voter Suppression
Over 50 Texas Democrats left the state earlier this week in an effort to block voter suppression legislation.
The GOP senator shamed state lawmakers for leaving in a hurry, months after he jetted off to Cancun amid power outages caused by deadly winter weather.
More than 50 Texas lawmakers left the state to stall Republican voter suppression efforts and urge Congress to take action on voting rights.
Hervis Rogers, 62, is being charged with illegal voting, officials said Wednesday. Rogers endured seven hours in line waiting to vote in last year's primary elections.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Texas Democrats steel for new fight against measures that could become some of the most restrictive voting laws in America.
Gov. Greg Abbott (R) called a special legislative session to pass what could be some of the nation's harshest new voting restrictions.
The Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 2013 and brought back the old politics of the past.
Senate Democrats are struggling to pass the For the People Act, but there are plenty of partisan election laws happening in the states.
The attorney general said the DOJ will fight back as Republican-led state legislatures pass voting restrictions because of Donald Trump's voter fraud lies.
"Our democracy is too important to be sacrificed at the altar of archaic and anti-democratic Senate procedures such as the filibuster," the group told the senator.