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Tennessee state lawmaker Scotty Campbell (R) resigned on Thursday, following the publication of the results of an ethics subcommittee investigation into sexual harassment allegations. Campbell, the vice chair of the Tennessee House Republican Caucus, was found to have sexually harassed at least one legislative intern. The findings were reported by Nashville local news Thursday morning, who then pressed Campbell live on air about the allegations. Although the victim declined to comment on the story, an email given to the news station by her family gives some details of the case. The email provi...
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Tennessee Republican state House members expelled two Democratic representatives following a protest at the state capitol. Reps. Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis were ousted from their seats. Both Jones and Pearson are black. A third representative, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, who is white and also participated in the protests, survived the expulsion by one vote. Republicans, who hold a 75-seat supermajority in the 99-seat legislature, heard the three members defend their actions this week before voting on the resolution. All three lawmakers had already been remove...
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Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tennessee), the congressional representative for Nashville, Tennessee, was criticized after a 2021 Christmas photo of the representative’s family holding AR-15 assault weapons resurfaced. Ogles, whose district includes the scene of the March 27 Covenant School shooting where six people died, responded to the violence with “thoughts and prayers.” “My family and I are devastated by the tragedy that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville this morning,” the representative said on Monday. “We are sending our thoughts and prayers to the families of those lost. As a father ...
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Tennessee Rep. Tim Burchett (R) told reporters that gun violence isn’t fixable, just hours after a mass shooting killed three school children and three adults in Nashville, Tennessee. “It’s a horrible, horrible situation,” Burchett said on the steps of the Capitol. “And we’re not gonna fix it. Criminals are gonna be criminals.” “My daddy fought in the Second World War, fought in the Pacific, fought the Japanese, and he told me … ‘Buddy, if somebody wants to take you out and doesn’t mind losing their life, there’s not a whole heck of a lot you can do about it.” “I don’t think you’re gonna sto...
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Tennessee State Rep. Justin Lefferty (R) argued on his state’s House floor Tuesday that the U.S. Constitution’s “three-fifths compromise” should be hailed as a positive, but “bitter” piece of United States history. Lefferty made the comment during a debate on whether or not Tennessee would adopt Critical Race Theory education into public schools. “I’ve sat here praying for about five or 10 minutes about how I’m going to try and address the body in this issue. Still not sure I have the answer, but if you guys will bear with me, I’ll see where it takes us,” Lafferty said. Lafferty claimed that t...
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