Change in Texas Law to Allow Republicans to Replace DeLay if He “Withdraws” Unlikely to Be Passed in Time to Help DeLay

So concludes Charles Kuffner of the Houston Chronicle, who notes: “According to the Texas Constitution, ‘No law passed by the Legislature, except the general appropriation act, shall take effect or go into force until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was enacted, unless the Legislature shall, by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each House, otherwise direct’. To put it bluntly, ain’t no way in hell there’s 100 votes in the House for this. Given that 90 days from today is October 8, it’s not clear that you could get this law enacted in time for Election Day even if Perry called a session to begin tomorrow. Nice try, but no dice.” See also this report in The Hill.

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