Welp. Texas is about to be off the chain!

shaddyvillethug

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Deny them niggas aid and vaccines.

this just like when they told them Nawlyns niggus to get the fuck outta there and they stayed

Let them sleep

In about 3 weeks yaw niggas gon need saving again.

I should be able to set only my tax dollars go to non souf states in relief.
 

spider705

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Deny them niggas aid and vaccines.

this just like when they told them Nawlyns niggus to get the fuck outta there and they stayed

Let them sleep

In about 3 weeks yaw niggas gon need saving again.

I should be able to set only my tax dollars go to non souf states in relief.
Deny who aid and vaccines?
 

Politic Negro

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Texas Republicans are rolling out a slew of restrictive election bills, taking particular aim at early voting after Democrats enthusiastically embraced the practice last year.
More than two dozen GOP-sponsored elections bills are under consideration in the Legislature as lawmakers seek to tighten ID requirements and voter rolls, limit early voting and up the penalties for errors. The broad interest — and a directive last month from the governor to prioritize election legislation — makes changes to Texas' election law likely this year.

"Texas has been working on election integrity for a while," said state Sen. Bryan Hughes, a Republican who chairs the State Affairs Committee and introduced a 27-page omnibus bill with several new restrictions and penalties.
"This was already in process, but then the 2020 election was so in the national spotlight, and so many people have questions, so many people have concerns," he said. "I would say that has raised the profile of the issue."


Former President Donald Trump's stolen election lie has convinced 3 of every 4 Republicans that there was widespread voter fraud in last year's election, according to a December Quinnipiac University poll, even though there is broad evidence that it is extremely rare.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's office spent 22,000 hours looking for voter fraud and uncovered just 16 cases of false addresses on registration forms, according to The Houston Chronicle. Nearly 17 million voters are registered in Texas.
And while Texas already had some of the most restrictive laws on the books, that isn't stopping state lawmakers from joining their GOP peers across the country to propose new restrictive bills. Republican legislators in Georgia, Arizona, Florida and Wisconsin — many of whom joined with Trump to cast doubt on the system — are legislating to restrict the vote, arguing that new measures are needed to restore trust in the system.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, lawmakers have introduced at least 253 restrictive bills in 43 states.
Democrats in Texas — and across the country — have countered with proposals to expand voting access, but with GOP control in a majority of state legislatures and in key swing states, the restrictions are increasingly more potent.
"It's important that the system be fair, but it's equally important that people know it's fair, so they'll participate, so they'll vote," said Hughes, who was re-elected in November. He said he wasn't sure whether the presidential race had been stolen.
Many of the provisions would directly address creative ways that Texans voted during the pandemic, like overnight early voting and drive-thru voting, as well as mail-in voting, which Trump particularly protested.
"If you can name an improvement, there's a bill that's been filed to try and eliminate it," said Cinde Weatherby, who works on voting rights issues with the League of Women Voters Texas. The group opposes restrictive voting laws and advocates for modernizing the state's election system.
Early voting is a frequent target of the GOP bills, with proposed legislation targeting where and when voters cast their ballots before Election Day.
Harris, the nation's third-largest county and home to Houston, appears to be a particular target. The county offered drive-thru early voting and overnight early voting last year for its 4.7 million residents to make voting during the pandemic safer and more accessible.
Two Senate bills propose barring tents and garages for early voting, potentially targeting Harris County's drive-thru early voting, which occurred in tents and garages. Republicans repeatedly sued over drive-thru voting last fall, but the courts refused to toss out the more than 127,000 ballots that were cast that way.


Several bills seek to limit early voting to certain hours or to standardize hours across the state, which would expand early voting in smaller counties while limiting it in the largest counties. All would cut early voting hours in urban, Democratic areas.
State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Republican from Denton County, introduced a bill to limit early voting to the hours of 6 a.m. and 9 p.m.
"Momma always said nothing good happens after midnight," he wrote in a tweet. "That includes at polling places."
Momma always said nothing good happens after midnight. That includes at polling places. I filed HB 2293 because of irregularities in Harris County polling hours of operation and the opportunity for voter fraud when no one is looking. @HarrisCountyRP @DentonCountyGOP https://t.co/46kLiWpaVO
— Rep. Jared Patterson (@JaredLPatterson) February 25, 2021
Other proposed legislation targets mail voting, which lawmakers say needs additional precautions to prevent fraud.
Republicans have proposed a bill that would shrink the period when voters could return mail ballots, while another bill would ask voters to mail back photocopies of their driver's licenses or other qualifying identification with their mail ballots.
Democratic voters in the state were more likely to cast mail ballots in the last election than Republicans, The Texas Tribune reported.
Several bills also seek to ensure that noncitizens stay off the voter rolls and urge election officials to aggressively purge the rolls. And a slew of bills would add or increase penalties for fraud or mistakes made by voters or officials in running elections.
Hughes' election bill, which he said he expects will be the vehicle for any voting legislation coming out of the Senate, would impose civil fines on local officials who don't purge their voter rolls quickly enough — $100 for every voter the secretary of state's office identifies as improperly being on the books.

Several of the bills seem aimed at preventing things that happened elsewhere in the U.S.
State Sen. Paul Bettencourt, a Republican from Harris County, has sponsored a bill that would prohibit election officials from waiving signature match requirements on mail ballots, which he said hasn't happened in Texas.
"We saw it in Atlanta, Pennsylvania — Philadelphia, Detroit, Milwaukee," he said, pointing to many of the Democratic cities with large populations of Black voters that Trump's allies baselessly accused of orchestrating a large voter fraud campaign to steal the election.
A court ruling waived Pennsylvania's signature match requirements in ballot verification last year, but the three other cities verified voters who cast mail ballots. In Wisconsin, voters verified their identities by including copies of their photo IDs on the ballot application, and witnesses were required to sign affidavits on that ballot. Georgia and Michigan also verify signature matches on mail ballots.
Pressed on that, Bettencourt said it didn't matter.
"Just the fact that we saw it in Pennsylvania for sure is enough," he said. "We just don't want election officials going down that path here."
 

Politic Negro

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Texas courts defy CDC eviction pause

Some Texas state courts are openly defying a federal order to halt evictions amid the coronavirus pandemic, even as the state sits on more than $1 billion in undistributed federal rental aid with more assistance from Washington on its way.

New guidance issued by a state judicial advisory panel has given a green light to Texas courts presiding over eviction cases to disregard a moratorium from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that temporarily halts evictions through June.

Hundreds of thousands of Texans risk being thrown out of their homes under the new court guidance, a problem that advocates say is compounded by the state’s sluggish pace in distributing rental assistance from Congress.


Texas disbursed less than 1 percent of $1.3 billion in federal funding in the first 45 days of its state-run rent relief program, according to the Dallas Morning News, citing an April 5 report by a state legislative panel.

“That $1.3 billion is literally sitting in Austin in a bank account ready to be disbursed,” said Mark Melton, an attorney at Holland & Knight's Dallas office who is helping to lead pro bono efforts on behalf of tenants.

“You're going to have a whole bunch of tenants that are going to become homeless,” he said, “who are going to be sitting outside of empty rental units that are across the street from a huge pile of cash that could have stopped this whole thing to begin with.”


The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs, which oversees the state program, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Texas is slated to receive even more federal rental aid as a result of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package that President Biden signed into law last month. Yet recent state court developments have made it more likely that eviction will reach some tenants before federal rent assistance does.

The Texas Supreme Court last week declined to extend an emergency order that had required Texas courts to effectively abide by the CDC moratorium. Rather than push courts to continue applying these protections, however, a judicial advisory panel moved in the opposite direction.

The Texas Justice Court Training Center (JCTC), which publishes nonbinding advisory opinions to Texas judges, said the CDC’s order should not be considered governing law in eviction cases.

“It is not a matter that a justice court can or should enforce in the absence of authority from the Texas Supreme Court,” read JCTC guidance of March 31, the day the Texas Supreme Court’s emergency order expired.


Benfer, of Wake Forest University, said the new guidance tees up a potential clash where tenants have exercised their rights under the CDC moratorium. Renters demonstrate their eligibility for CDC eviction protections by signing a sworn declaration under penalty of perjury.

“It’s the judge’s duty to interpret and apply the law, and guidance that instructs courts to take no action when presented with a declaration violates the spirit of the moratorium," she said. "Where a tenant presents a declaration it should halt the eviction process immediately.”

It was not immediately clear how many Texans have been evicted so far this month in defiance of CDC protections. Melton, the Texas attorney, said the response by judges has been mixed, with some continuing to apply federal law while others have fully embraced the new pro-landlord guidance.

“We have some judges that are gleefully evicting people over the course of the last week on the grounds laid out in that guidance,” he said.


 

Politic Negro

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Now you can get a silencer with no problem. SMH

Constitutional carry and silencers: What you need to know about new Texas gun laws
JUNE 19, 2021
Gov. Greg Abbott signed multiple new gun-related bills into law Thursday. But do they work the way you would think?

TEMPLE, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott signed a slew of new gun-related legislation on Thursday. But how those laws were described, and how they will actually affect Texans, may not be exactly the same.

Here are some things all Texans need to know before they decide to take advantage of constitutional carry or the new Texas suppressor law.

At 11 a.m. on Thursday, Abbott held a news conference with the Lieutenant Governor, the Texas Speaker of the House, members of the Texas House and Senate and NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre among others. He signed seven bills into law.

“They built a complete barrier around gun rights in the state of Texas and [Thursday], I’m signing seven laws to protect second amendment rights in the Lone Star State,” Abbott said.

The first bill signed was for constitutional carry, which is intended to make it legal for individuals who are 21 years of age or older, and who can legally possess a firearm, to carry a handgun without first obtaining a license.

According to the Gun Owners of America lobbying organization, there are some important differences between constitutional carry and having a license to carry (LTC).

Businesses can choose to prohibit unlicensed carry by providing notice under Penal Code Chapter 30.05 even if they still allow concealed carry or carrying with a license. A general "no weapons" sign also still prohibits constitutional carry.

A LTC has a "savings clause" under Texas law that allows a person to avoid any legal penalties if they carried a handgun into a prohibited place but left as soon as you were given personal notice.

Constitutional Carry does not have this clause, and a person that carries a handgun where prohibited can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor or third-degree felony even if they leave immediately.

Additionally, while those with an LTC can take advantage of campus carry, those with constitutional carry cannot.

Abbott also signed HB 597 into law which states in part, "A firearm suppressor that is manufactured in this state and remains in this state is not subject to federal law or federal regulation, including registration, under the authority of the United States Congress to regulate interstate commerce."

Abbott said on Tuesday, "Any firearm suppressor made in Texas and that stays in Texas will not be subject to federal law or federal regulations."

Multiple sources told 6 News Friday this is, in fact, not true.

Brent Martin manages both the Hawkeye Shooting Academy and Czerka Armaments Research in Temple. Martin has an ATF license to build machines guns, short barrel rifles, short barrel shotguns and silencers. Customers can buy a silencer only if they register it with ATF.

It's not a simple process. The application requires a person to fill out a form, provide two passport photos, provide fingerprints and pay a $200 fee. If Martin were to sell to someone without them being registered he could lose his ATF license.

"It says any silencer manufactured in Texas is exempt from all federal laws which... That may be the legal view of Texas but that's not going to be the legal view of the federal government," Martin said. "They don't recognize that."

Martin said local law enforcement or DPS is not going to come after someone with a non-registered silencer, but the ATF could arrest that person at any time. The person could face up to 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine. Martin worries someone will find out the hard way that Texas silencers aren't really protected.

"If someone goes and makes a suppressor, but doesn't fill out the paper work, they can be arrested," Martin said.

The State of Texas, or a citizen, could try to challenge this in court, but Texas A&M University Central Texas professor Jeffrey Dixon told 6 News it would not go well for the State.

"The first issue is that there is already a precedent from the 1990s that pretty on point," Dixon said. "Gonzales vs. Raich was a decision that said the federal government with its interstate commerce power could regulate the production and distribution of marijuana even in a particular state. California in that case."

Dixon said he thought the bills' authors were mistaken in thinking it would work to simply say that the silencer was made in Texas with Texas materials.

"I don't think that we are going to find any lower courts that are going to side with the state on this bill," Dixon said.

Dixon said a Supreme Court decision to support such a bill would have far reaching ramifications for the whole country if they overturned that precedent.

Anyone looking to buy a silencer is strongly encouraged to still register it with the ATF.
 

mariano42

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Ninjas in Texas might as well walk around looking like War Machine with a hall of armory :lol:
 

EGO-TRIP

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Dallas just had 6 people die from covid last week.
not sure where u are getting your info.
you asking me about stats that applied OVER A MONTH ago ? OK.........6 people died of Covid last week ,out of 25,000,000 = 0.000002 percent , just a guess. meanwhile 40 people in car accidents , 50 overdose, 180 heart attacks , 70 murders...........logoff and go get some pussy,bru !
 
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