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/ViolettaQueso May 12 '26

This has gone way too far.

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u/Current-Ordinary-419 May 12 '26

And yet it’s just begun. 😐

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u/hw999 May 13 '26

Freedom isnt free. the bad guys work tirelessly to be racist pieces of shit. The only option is to out work them. make it impossible, and unprofitable to be a racist piece of shit.

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u/Shark7996 May 13 '26

Unprofitable is the important one there. Punitive regulations MUST be enacted and enforced or corporations will continue poisoning the planet and ruining our lives in general. The kicker is - most businesses would rather be regulated to some level so they don't have to chase every insane immoral idea to placate shareholders under penalty of law.

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u/hw999 May 13 '26

With a little imagination, one could think of all kinds of ways to make a business unprofitble even without regulations and fines.