State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh’s legislative blockade reflects how advocates for (and against) trans rights rely on the playbook used in fights over abortion access.
.” One round of debate took place last week; Nebraska law requires two more rounds of debate before a final vote on any bill.
Kelly Dittmar, associate professor of political science at Rutgers University and director of research at the Center for American Women and Politics, said both Davis and Cavanaugh took advantage of tools available to them as the minority party in their statehouses—and used it to amplify dry procedural“A filibuster rule like this … it benefits the minority and gives them the ability to both influence and stall the process, or even halt the process.
“On both of these issues, it becomes less about the issue itself,” she said. “In many of these cases, there’s very little argument for these bills coming out of an actual problem.”
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