Timeline for Why doesn't the Texas legislature nuke the quorum?
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| Jul 17, 2021 at 0:41 | comment | added | Alexander The 1st | @CGCampbell: Thanks for the heads up - made the edit myself to align with the rest of the post! | |
| Jul 17, 2021 at 0:41 | history | edited | Alexander The 1st | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Thanks for the note CGCampbell!
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| Jul 15, 2021 at 20:55 | comment | added | Joe W | In a case like this there is no possible excuse they can give to claim that they thought they had enough for quorum. That fact alone would be enough for the courts to overturn everything they did. I would also argue that if they claimed they had quorum (2/3rd in this case) and they only got enough votes to reach 51% of the members would cause issues. If they can't show enough votes to meet quorum that would cause problems as members have the ability to vote present if they don't want to vote on a bill. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 19:24 | comment | added | Alexander The 1st | @JoeW: Sure, they have to do an official check as soon as it is questioned, but if they've completed a session before being questioned, they could, as I understand, get away with below quorum. It's my understanding for a refusal to be at the meeting to be able to uphold the cancellation of a session if the quorum isn't met, the side having everyone leave in protest have one person stay specifically to be the person to raise the question. Once it`s cancelled, they then can leave. | |
| Jul 15, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | Joe W | You are misunderstanding a key point about the quorum in the senate and how it operates. While they assume that there is one present as soon as it is questioned they have to do an official check and cancel the session if it is not met. In the cast of Texas it is very clear that there will not be a quorum present so even if they tried to "assume" one was present anything they did would hit legal challenges. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 22:53 | comment | added | Owen Reynolds | As for the US Senate, and this is from memory of an Al Franken article: you used to need 2/3s of those present. Now you need 3/5ths of the total (which is a constant 60). The 2/3s rule was more lax in practice -- 66 senators show up on a Friday and you only need 44 to continue. | |
| Jul 14, 2021 at 22:03 | history | answered | Alexander The 1st | CC BY-SA 4.0 |