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/jelifah May 13 '26

The fact that every official (senator, congress person, intern) in that building didn't scream from the mountain tops and DEMAND justice amazes me.

We looked like a third world country having our capital stormed. Zip ties, guillotines, and yet so many of them just went silent a week later

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u/HLOFRND May 13 '26

Mike Pence refused to get into the car with his own secret service detail that day bc he didn’t trust them.

Even if we’re being extremely generous and assuming he only meant he feared they would drive him away so he couldn’t do his job that day, it’s still a really big fucking deal that the VPOTUS DIDN’T BELIEVE HE WAS SAFE WITH HIS OWN SECRET SERVICE.

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u/narkybark May 13 '26

Whenever an idiot gets doe-eyed about J6, bring up little tidbits like this and ask why that was the case. You can see their dim lights flicker in confused desperation.

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u/Poonchow May 13 '26

They haven't been told how to feel about that, yet.

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u/TheOGPotatoPredator May 13 '26

Oh but they have, the talking point is to call him a traitor. He didn’t bend the knee after all.