Tennessee GOP passes immigration law to criminalize elected officials' votes
The law, pushed by Gov. Bill Lee as an immigration enforcement measure, will also establish a new immigration czar and office in the state.
That's fucked. That whole thing is fucked. Tennessee should be on fire over this shit.
A single Republican, Sen. Todd Gardenhire, R-Chattanooga, joined Democrats in voting against the measure, calling it a "dangerous precedent" to charge local officials for casting a vote.
Todd is going to get death threats. I'm calling it now.
The GOP supermajority in the General Assembly this week gave swift passage to the immigration enforcement law despite warnings from staff attorneys that the bill is "constitutionally suspect" in its unprecedented effort to curtail elected officials' voting decisions.
The constitution? Are we still pretending that old thing matters anymore? lol good joke.
Pretty sure the 5 million is probably better spent on all sorts of things Tennesseans actually need.
Inbred fuckwits.
Do better Tennessee voters.
It's gerrymandered to all hell. A federal court literally ruled it's gerrymandered along political, rather than racial lines, which makes it legal somehow.
TN-4, which includes the college town of Murfreesboro, used to lean blue, but they lumped it together with a bunch of rural areas going all the way out to East Tennessee and now it's one of the safest red seats in the country, held by a dirtbag domestic abuser.
Gov. Haslem may have been a corporate tool but at least he pushed back on some of the culture war bullshit. Ever since he retired, the far-right kicked into overdrive. They're all trying to outdo each other and the state government has no understanding of how the law even works. If an issue is mentioned on Fox News, a new law will be proposed about it within the week.
Be sure to keep that victim complex while democracy crumbles around you. Here are a few, off the top of my head things that don't have anything to do with gerrymandering: running for local offices, volunteering for candidates, peaceful protests, donating, community organization, writing and calling local/state/national reps, shuttle services to polling locations.
There comes a point when gerrymandering becomes mathematically impossible. Like I said..."do better Tennessee voters."
My sister in law is a few months out from leaving that state.
Crippling poverty and isolation without education or services. She'd done aid work in africa and in afghanistan for years during the war. She says Tennessee is more hopeless.
This what they WANT.
If we could do that, no one know Marsha blackburns name
I wonder if they repealed their statute giving elected officials acting in official capacity qualified immunity.