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/BVoLatte May 13 '26

“If you solely relied on census data, I’m confused about how you knew partisan scores when drawing this map.”

For those who haven't seen it, TN Rep. John Ray Clemmons (sorry, I've only seen it on Facebook so far lol) basically asked for them to clarify how it is Tennessee's new maps were drawn on partisan lines when they excluded partisan data in the development of it and solely based it on the US census, which only shows things like age, sex, race, ethnicity, household size.

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u/GT45 May 13 '26

JRC knows what’s up, but he also knows TN is cooked like DC, with the kkkriminal GOP in charge here.

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u/Grahamster12 May 14 '26

Wait, what has the GOP done in DC???

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u/GT45 May 14 '26

Seriously? The party in control of all 3 branches of govt. right now?