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The Office of the Attorney General is claiming "legislative immunity" for House Speaker Cameron Sexton in a lawsuit filed over new House of Representatives rules.
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From @friedmanadam5.bsky.social : Tennessee has one of the highest rates of people put in jail or prison, a report released by the Prison Policy Institute found - the ninth-highest incarceration rate in the world based on population.
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A spate of new criminal justice laws took effect on Monday, reports, including one that gives the death penalty for child rape, and another spurred by the killing of a Belmont University student.
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190 children's deaths last year are being investigated for suspected abuse and neglect by the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services - a nearly 30% increase over the prior year and the largest number in nearly a decade.
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Carol Westlake, founder and executive director of Tennessee Disability Coalition, reflects on her 35 years of advocacy as she prepares to step down: "We elect leaders to make choices of how limited resources are spent, and those choices are revealing."
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And now, for some very good news:
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Tennessee’s health department will hold its annual public hearing on Ballad Health’s state-sanctioned monopoly agreement as the hospital faces a new round of eroding public support.
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Anti-abortion activists' latest move is to use the dormant 1873 anti-obscenity law to challenge state abortion-rights ballot initiatives ahead of November.
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Doubts about the partisanship of Tennessee's attorney general dissolved with his refusal to offer an opinion on whether Donald Trump, a convicted felon, can remain on Tennessee's ballot.
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One of two land grant universities in Tennessee, Tennessee State University struggles for funding to bolster athletic facilities, find campus dorm space.
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Pepper spray, beatings & ‘bounties.’ Alleging violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a lawsuit against Tennessee Department of Children's Services charges children are denied medical and mental health care as discipline.
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A woman is suing Johnson City, its police force and more than two dozen officers, alleging cops took bribes to protect a serial rapist who pushed her from a fifth-story window during an attempted sexual assault.
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BlueOval Neighbors, a coalition of labor and faith leaders from West Tennessee is urging Ford Motor Co. to sign a community benefit agreement ensuring environmental standards, local hiring and affordable housing investments before opening its new factory. @friedmanadam5.bsky.social reports.
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Tennessee’s top Democrat in the state House wants the secretary of state to explain why more than 14,000 people received a letter warning them they might not be able to vote in the upcoming election. From @friedmanadam5.bsky.social.
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Not right enough? Three veteran Republican senators face challenges from opponents who say they are too soft on red-meat GOP issues like abortion and transgender care.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday morning it will take up a challenge to Tennessee’s 2023 ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
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Allegations of grade fixing at an Anderson County high school have taken down a popular high school principal, the head football coach, two teachers and three counselors.
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Tennessee law that bans gender transition care for people younger than 18. The case will be the first opportunity the justices have to consider the constitutionality of such restrictions, which 23 states have passed since 2021.
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If that same person lived in Tennessee, they wouldn’t even be able to cast a ballot and vote: @vincentdixie54 after Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti declined to offer an opinion on former President Donald Trump's being on the ballot.
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Months before the 2024 election and rumors abound about the field for the 2026 Republican primary: a whiskey entrepreneur and private prison CEO enter the chat.
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Seeing green in Big Orange Country: the Tennessee State Building Commission is pumping money into athletic facilities at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, with roughly 30% of the $1.6 billion spent on the campus improving Neyland and Lindsey Nelson stadiums.
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An analysis by @friedmanadam5.bsky.social of bills passed during the last legislative session found that 25 House members, all but one of whom were Republicans, passed more than half of all successful bills.
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Piling on: Lt. Gov. Randy McNally is the latest Republican lawmaker to back Sen. Brent Taylor's power play to oust Shelby County's Democratic district attorney.
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More than 10,000 Tennesseans crossed state lines to obtain an abortion last year, according to estimates from @guttmacher.bsky.social, an abortion rights group.
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The Tennessee Department of Human Services says it has made progress in ending a backlog in the SNAP program that left thousands waiting for months for food, but it has also shrunk the program by 15%+. More than 122,000 people no longer get the benefit.
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Gov. Bill Lee is traveling the state to endorse supporters of school vouchers, promising it will be his main legislative priority when the legislative session opens in 2025.
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BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled mifepristone, one of two pharmaceuticals used in medication abortion, can remain available under current prescribing guidelines.
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Slowing demand for the Ford F-150 Lightning will delay the start of full production at West Tennessee's Ford BlueOval City.
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The latest in a suit filed by @TNNAACP on restoration of voting rights: state election officials want a court to postpone changes to how people with felony convictions can register to vote until after this year’s elections.
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While politicians on both sides of the aisle continue to grapple with the topic of unauthorized immigration, a group in West Tennessee is providing low-cost legal services for pathways to citizenship.
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Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in Nashville — many of whom went on to prominence — died Sunday at the age of 95.
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'Pitting one group against another’: Families say they feel pressured by state officials who emphasize the needs of children in state custody over disabled adults.
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An annual report from the Southern Poverty Law Center finds white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year.
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Nearly half of all Tennessee working families cannot afford the basic cost of living in their counties, according to new analyses of Census and federal economic data by the United Way of Tennessee.
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From John Cole: "Law and order” Republicans like U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn apparently became less concerned about the law when a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up hush money to a porn star prior to the 2020 election.
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Coming to your November ballot: Donald Trump, recently convicted of 34 counts of felonies, will be back on the ballot in Tennessee, despite a challenge issued by Nashville Democratic Rep. Vincent Dixie.
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Of course they are.
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From @friedmanadam5.bsky.social : Vanderbilt University continued to blame a Nashville Scene reporter, but shifted some responsibility to officers involved in his arrest as part of a report commissioned by the school.
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The Best of Tennessee, a political organization founded by lawyer Chloe Akers to shift state politics "from the fringes," has named its board, which includes former GOP state senator Jim Tracy and 2010 Democratic gubernatorial nominee Mike McWherter.
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti is leading a coalition of 21 Republican states in issuing a warning to the American Bar Association against requiring law schools to consider race in hiring and admissions.
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A new law allowing juvenile offenders to be tried as adults and sentenced to adult prison is raising concerns from several lawmakers and judges who say the measure is unworkable and possibly unconstitutional.
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In a new report, a state intergovernmental agency highlighted single-family zoning and the strict regulations around it as a cause of the state’s housing price spike.
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Blaming President Joe Biden for the 34-count conviction of former President Donald Trump, Sen. Marsha Blackburn is pledging to block Senate business, mainly items dealing with White House initiatives.
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'You can blame Gov. Bill Lee’; lawsuit in Williamson County says new law wrongly punishing Tennessee middle school kids after two were allegedly arrested and strip-searched.
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From Washington, DC: President Joe Biden announced Fridaya ceasefire proposal from Israel, saying the plan presented to Hamas represents the best chance to end the war.
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Sen. Brent Taylor's request to hire a former NYPD commissioner as a consultant to crack down on Memphis crime has ignited a turf war with other area lawmakers.
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Editor's notebook: lack of state accountability, a medical monopoly and political donations. jhollymc.bsky.social writes about why East Tennesseans can't count on Ballad Health.
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"Cumbersome and as our lawyers say, it’s constitutionally suspect." @stockard_sam reports a Williamson County School Board member is questioning the state’s updated law on “age appropriate” school books.
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Two U.S. senators are sponsoring the Purple Heart Veterans Education Act, a measure that will allow recipients of the medal awarded to those killed or wounded in action to transfer their unused education benefits to their dependents.
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A recent study finds that since the U.S. Supreme Court stripped the federal protections for abortion in its Dobbs v. Jackson ruling — ushering in a wave of state abortion bans — the volume of abortions in the U.S. has risen.
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