The summer standoff between Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and state House Democrats who fled to break a quorum on Abbott’s election reform law has come to an end. There were no arrests, as Abbott threatened. Enough Democrats returned to the Texas Legislature last week for a House vote on the bill with its inevitable consequence: Abbott now stands poised to sign the legislation that he says strengthens voter integrity, but which Democrats maintain restricts voting rights. Doug McKelway has more on the national implications of the impending passage of the bill.
