13-Hour Abortion Filibuster

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The Senate is clearly not in order... a mockery of Parliamentary procedure.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The Senate is clearly not in order... a mockery of Parliamentary procedure.

It was a mockery of parliamentary procedure for Dewhurst to rule that it was a violation by Davis to get her back brace adjusted and for mentioning sonograms while talking about a bill dealing with abortions.

I didn't see either.  The former sounds like there could be a valid reason behind it, but the latter I agree with you.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Well passing it past midnight makes things interesting (and it's pretty clear to everyone with a working clock that it happened after midnight).  On the one hand, courts generally stay out of parliamentary issues, but on the other hand, if the vote happened after midnight, that goes beyond parliamentary procedure and violates Governor Perry's call of the special session.

That brings up another question; who has standing to sue based on that?  Perry or anybody?  I'm honestly not sure such a topic has ever come up before... it's quite an interesting little legal problem.

And the Texas Republicans really screwed up here... if you're going to pass a bill, pass it legitimately.  Don't ram it through PAST the last minute... that's just a mockery of the system.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Sounds like a good law review topic.  Too bad I'm not in Texas.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

I'm glad Dewhurst made the right decision, but it's a bit sad that he practically had to be forced to do it.

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

The Senate is clearly not in order... a mockery of Parliamentary procedure.

It was a mockery of parliamentary procedure for Dewhurst to rule that it was a violation by Davis to get her back brace adjusted and for mentioning sonograms while talking about a bill dealing with abortions.

I didn't see either.  The former sounds like there could be a valid reason behind it, but the latter I agree with you.

Arguably violating the ADA could have a valid reason behind it?

And please don't parse the ADA, it was hardball gutter politics. Regardless of what one thinks of this bill, that would be the equivilent of calling one out of order for adjusting one's wheelchair.

Grossly indecent.

I didn't see it, and I don't know what rule was "violated".  You're probably right, but I don't know.  Either way, it's a moot point, because he was wrong in ruling the sonogram issue as not germane to the bill, and the voting after midnight was certainly wrong.