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Bragg Sues Jordan "Bragg is asking a judge to invalidate subpoenas that Jordan, the chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has or plans to issue as part of an investigation of Bragg's handling of the Trump case. "'Chairman Jordan's subpoena is an unconstitutional attempt to undermine an...

State Houses Starting to Flip on Abortion Views "After losing hundreds of state legislative seats nationwide in the 2010s, Democrats began reversing the trend in 2022. Backlash to the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, among other things, fueled successful campaigns to flip state...

Good Description of the Democratic Response to the TN Expulsions The following excerpt from this piece explains thins nicely from the Democratic point of view. When Tennessee Republicans expelled two young, Black Democratic lawmakers from the state House last week, the national reaction was...

I'm not sure I'd give them "brilliant." I'd say it was a gutsy move but not brilliant. It was gutsy because it was obviously planned in advance and coordinated by the Tennessee Three and probably the group in the gallery working together. They wanted to make a point (gun law reform) that got...

I agree. It became a huge national story because of the overt racism demonstrated by the Republican super-majority. And you're right. It may have been a less-explosive story had the white woman been expelled too. But even if she had, the heavy handed response of expulsion would have made big...

An objective look would include a study of say the last 10 expulsions that happened in 50 state legislatures in prior years. With that data, we could objectively determine how many expulsions were partisan based as the Tennessee expulsions were. And we could determine if the Demcorats and...

Mob rule? The Republicans have a supermajority and you call "mob rule?" The rules were followed. When the decorum breach happened, that rules violation was recognized and became the basis for the expulsion, which was done under the rules. It was heavy handed, in my opinion, but it was done...

I do not know that. We have no way of knowing, of course, unless the roles were actually reversed and the same kind of decorum violation actually happened. But no, I do not know full well the Democrats would have done the same thing in the same circumstances. And your point is off topic. This...

For that to happen, there must be a dispute to be taken to court. Parties do not go to court when they agree, and today they agreed. The House seated Jones today without objection. Jones did not object. Speaker Cameron did not object. No House member objected. Might objections come later...

No, he does not explain it. He simply expresses wishful thinking. In fact, Justin Jones was seated today, without objection from the Speaker or voiced by anyone else in the House.

Few people outside of Tennessee had heard of Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and state House Speaker Cameron Sexton before last week. After Sexton conducted a vote to expel the three, and the vote on two of them succeeded, all four became national names. The protest in the well of...

I saw two interviews today; one with Justin Jones, the other with Justin Pearson. Both specifically mentioned the six lives lost at the Christian school. They are not forgetting that. They are keeping the spotlight on it.

The person who wrote this is obviously misinformed. Justin Jones was reinstated and sworn in today, as the successor to himself.

Justin Jones Returned to TN Legislature As expected, the Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday voted to reappoint Justin Jones to the Tennessee House of Representatives. The council vote was 32-0.

Valid point but irrelevant to the point I am making. My point is, Republicans are vastly out of touch with the American People regarding abortion, and they are becoming more so with the increasingly strident anti-abortion measures and rhetoric they promote. With few exceptions, they are not...

At least this Republican is listening; U.S. Representative Nancy Mace, R-SC. Are there more? “We are getting it wrong on this issue,” she said. “We’ve got to show some compassion to women, especially women who’ve been raped. We’ve got to show compassion on the abortion issue because by and...

And that is precisely why the Republicans are headed for trouble. They don't seem to understand the majority of Americans want abortion rights. Or if they do understand, they don't care. Instead of moderating abortion rules after the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade, they are plunging headlong...

I did not start this thread to debate abortion, and I will not do so here. I started the thread to show how Republican overreach on abortion is motivating voters in blue, red and purple states to turn out in large numbers to defeat abortion bans or limitations, or to approve abortion rights...

Example: California, Nov., 2022 California voters approve Proposition 1, an amendment that enshrines abortion rights in the state constitution; 66.9% to 33.1%.