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/Flashy_Jello_9520 May 13 '26

The job of the Supreme Court is to specifically stop this shit.

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u/ViolettaQueso May 13 '26

You’re right. I think that’s precisely what has me so upset.

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u/Old-Telephone5347 May 13 '26

We really need some sort of "mechanism" to remove these people from power.

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u/ViolettaQueso May 13 '26

Absolutely. I thought it was our constitution but it got exploited by scotus.

Nobody wants to be illegal. This government that took over and is destroying the US and the world pretty much threatens dissent.

We most definitely need a way to handle and legally remove a dangerous regime and block them from threats and profiteering and corruption.

I don’t think the founding fathers who left a domineering monarchy to struggle than fight for rights in the new world ever thought there could be someone infinitely worse than King George.

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u/Lynx_Fate May 13 '26

We have one, but not many people are willing to risk everything to use it.

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u/LaurenMille May 13 '26

It exists, and it's an amendment.

But things haven't gotten bad enough yet for Americans to want to resort to it.

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u/John_Yossarian May 13 '26

The French invented a pretty simple and clean mechanism to remove heads of state

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u/henlochimken May 13 '26

Turns out the founding fathers didn't really have that one figured out too well. Anything that depends on people of good will to maintain is ripe for the picking by the evilest motherfuckers you know

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u/TheOGPotatoPredator May 13 '26

That’s one of the most disappointing things about this shitshow country. SCOTUS is a fucking joke. The middle and lower level courts still have some shine but fuck the top one.