There are limits within the reach of republican legislators, even in Texas

For weeks, Texas Republican legislators had promised that they would require the proof of citizenship voting in most elections, hoping that the 2025 legislature would be an avant-garde for other conservative states considering similar measures.

The voting rights groups have shouted. An analysis has shown that the bill could harm in a disproportionate manner to the Republicans, which were less likely than the Democrats to have the required documents. Then, while the Texas legislative session ended on Monday, the bill died.

Its failure was one of the many surprising results of this year’s legislative session, which was among the most conservative of recent memory. The legislator adopted measures requiring the ten commandments in each class and creating good funded by the public for private tuition fees.

But the session also revealed the limits of right -wing governance, even in a state that President Trump has decisively won and which is controlled by the Republicans at all levels of power. The legislators have failed to transmit strict borders on wind and solar energy, and a tight prohibition of abortion pills from outside the state.

Texas was a particularly good test case for the scope of the GOP, because for the first time in years, the Republicans of the Legislative Assembly were not actively at war. Made Internal fights between the Republicans of the Chamber and the Senate It had spoiled the last sessions, which occur every two years.

Instead, Lieutenant-Governor Dan Patrick, who controls the state Senate with a firm hand, especially what he wanted, a more in accordance.