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Tenn. State Rep. Justin Pearson’s confrontation with Republican over gun violence gets personal: ‘Learn to shut up!’

Emotions were high at the Tennessee State Capitol on Wednesday as State Rep. Justin J. Pearson confronted a Republican colleague during a legislative hearing on gun control. Pearson, a longtime gun reform advocate who, along with fellow Rep. Justin Jones, was infamously expelled by Republicans for protesting against gun violence on the House floor, returned to the capitol building after losing his brother to gun suicide to yet again advocate for his legislation to end permitless-carry gun laws in Tennessee. […]

March 27, 2025

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Tenn. Rep. Justin Jones to remain on 2024 ballot after GOP dispute

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — One of the two Black lawmakers briefly expelled from Tennessee’s GOP-controlled Statehouse last year will remain on the 2024 ballot after overcoming a challenge from a Republican opponent. Earlier this year, Rep. Justin Jones submitted 26 signatures to Nashville election officials in order to qualify to run as a Democratic candidate. He needed at least 25 signatures from verified voters in his district. After one of Jones’ signatures was disqualified, Republican challenger Laura Nelson filed a complaint challenging […]

May 5, 2024

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Tenn. governor cuts police reforms enacted after Tyre Nichols’ death

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on the repeal of police traffic stop reforms made in Memphis after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers in January 2023, despite pleas from Nichols’ parents to GOP lawmakers and the governor to give them a chance to find compromise. The Republican governor’s signature means the law immediately renders some of Memphis’ ordinances null and void, including one that outlawed so-called pretextual traffic stops, such as […]

March 30, 2024

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Police reforms enacted after Tyre Nichols’ death will end if Tenn. governor signs bill

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Legislation designed to undo police traffic stop reforms set in place after the fatal beating of Tyre Nichols by officers last year is now headed to Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee’s desk, despite emotional pleas to abandon the measure from Nichols’ family and accusations that the proposal is “extreme government overreach.” For weeks, the Republican-controlled Tennessee Statehouse has remained steadfast in overturning an ordinance adopted by the Memphis city council, which included outlawing so-called pretextual traffic […]

March 15, 2024

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Tenn. Rep. Justin Jones slams proposal to ban lawmakers booted for behavior as ‘retaliatory’ and ‘racist’

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Republicans in the Tennessee House voted Monday to advance a bill that would prevent local governments from reappointing state lawmakers who were expelled due to behavior. The proposal is one of several restrictions being considered after the GOP’s high-profile expulsion proceedings last April against Democratic state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. It would bar what happened after: Jones and Pearson were reappointed and quickly went back to work. One of the Legislature’s staff attorneys expressed […]

February 27, 2024