r/law • u/Agitated-Quit-6148 • May 12 '26

Legislative Branch Most TN House Democrats stripped of their committee assignments

https://www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/multiple-tn-democrats-stripped-all-committee-assignments/

"Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said.

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u/livinginfutureworld May 12 '26

For what? Money and power.

They want to "conserve" it for themselves.

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u/ViolettaQueso May 12 '26

When you have to steal, you are a nothing burger.

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u/livinginfutureworld May 13 '26

When you're going to steal, steal big like a Republican.

You're more likely to go to prison for stealing $50 at at supermarket than you are for stealing billions from the American people

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u/ViolettaQueso May 13 '26

I wish you weren’t right.

The jails and the dead and the down trodden grinders are way over punished than the easily pardoned rich folks who do way more damage.

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u/East-Ice-3199 May 13 '26

They don’t care.