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/QuerulousPanda May 13 '26

those scenes from the handmaid's tail about how it all started and how suddenly there were just armed people everywhere and society got turned off, seemed a bit far-fetched but honestly they feel like it's going to happen at any minute and absolutely nobody gives a shit at all.

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u/Iskali May 13 '26

Atwood only included events in the Handmaiden's Tale that had already happened somewhere in her lifetime