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New Tennessee House rules could ban hecklers, banish disorderly lawmakers to voting remotely
Rep. Gloria Johnson, a Democrat who survived an expulsion vote, called the Tennessee House changes ‘the most ridiculous, fascist rules.’
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Tennessee’s U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn seeks reelection against Democratic state Rep. Gloria Johnson
Blackburn’s 2018 win marked the first time a woman had been elected in Tennessee as a U.S. Senator.
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Fall matchup set between ‘Tennessee Three’ Democrat Gloria Johnson and GOP U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn
Blackburn again is touting an endorsement by Donald Trump, who beat President Joe Biden by 23 percentage points in Tennessee in 2020.
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Member of ‘Tennessee Three’ hopes to survive state Democratic Primary for Senate seat
Whoever advances out of the Democratic Primary will be running in a state that has solely elected GOP statewide candidates for nearly two decades.
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What to expect in Tennessee’s state primaries
In the state legislature, about half of the state’s 33 Senate seats and all 99 House seats are up for election this year. Republicans enjoy supermajorities in both chambers.
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Nashville-area GOP House race and Senate primaries top Tennessee’s Primary ballot
Former President Donald Trump, as he often does, has weighed in.
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A Black lawmaker briefly expelled from the Tennessee Statehouse will remain on the 2024 ballot
‘At the end of the day, if we don’t know how to spell our own name, we should not be signing this legal document,’ Rep. Justin Jones’ opponent said of petition signatures with misspelled names.
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Tennessee lawmakers pass bill to allow armed teachers, a year after deadly Nashville shooting
The measure would bar disclosing which employees are carrying guns beyond school administrators and police, including to students’ parents and even other teachers.
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Pride flags would be largely banned in Tennessee classrooms in bill advanced by GOP lawmakers
The legislation sets up an enforcement system that relies on lawsuits by parents or guardians of students who attend, or are eligible to attend, public school in a district in question.
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Tennessee House advances bill to ban reappointing lawmakers booted for behavior
Rep. Justin Pearson, who along with Rep. Justin Jones, was removed from office and later reappointed, called the bill retaliatory and racist.