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Filibuster

  • Republican state Sen. Gay Kernan snaps a selfie with Republican Sen. William Sharer towards the end of his nearly two and a half hour filibuster to block voting rights legislation backed by Democrats in the final hours of the 2022 30-day New Mexico legislative session.
    Local News
    GOP senator runs the clock out on bill to expand voting rights
    Nash Jones
    With hours left in the 30-day legislative session, a bill to expand voting rights in New Mexico made it to the Senate floor, but stalled as Republican Sen. William Sharer ran down the clock. Sharer’s filibuster was not the first procedural maneuver Senate Republicans employed to stop voting rights legislation from passing.