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Bill Proposes Making Businesses Indicate Which Bathrooms Open to Transgender People or Face Charges On 5/27/21 at 12:53 PM EDT The new Tennessee law that requires businesses and government buildings to have signs if they allow transgender people to use their desired bathrooms can result in six months in prison for those who dont comply. The bills sponsor, Republican state Representative Tim Rudd, said that those who break the law may face a class B misdemeanor, despite the penalty going undiscu...

Tennessee bill requiring women to bury, cremate remains after an abortion heads to governor’s desk Bill requiring burial or cremation of aborted fetal remains passes TN House, Senate By Kelli Cook | April 21, 2021 at 9:32 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 11:01 PM “Normally the baby is abandoned in the abortion clinic and it’s thrown out in the trash or medical waste which is trash,” said Representative Tim Rudd of Rutherford County. Rudd is the primary sponsor of the origi...

Tennessee bill requiring women to bury, cremate remains after an abortion heads to governor’s desk Tennessee flag (Source: WVLT) By Kelli Cook | April 21, 2021 at 9:32 PM CDT - Updated April 21 at 11:01 PM “Normally the baby is abandoned in the abortion clinic and it’s thrown out in the trash or medical waste which is trash,” said Representative Tim Rudd of Rutherford County. Rudd is the primary sponsor of the original bill in the House. It was then approved in the S...

A bill that left the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday seeks to reduce the influence a Nashville court plays in hearing constitutional challenges after it issued an election ruling last year. In this screenshot of Tennessee’s state Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Tuesday, state Senator Mike Bell discusses his proposal to create a statewide chancery court to hear lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the state’s statutes. (Image via Courthouse News). (CN) — Tennessee statute di...

A persistent issue in Tennessee government is that of whether state law should trump the preferences of local jurisdictions. Two tests of the proposition are...

Tue, Mar 9th 2021 10:42am — Mike Masnick Weve been highlighting a wide variety of state bills from Republican-led legislatures that all attempt to attack Section 230. Nearly all of them are blatantly unconstitutional attacks on the 1st Amendment. Somewhat incredibly, the latest one from Tennessee might not actually be unconstitutional. That doesnt mean its good. In fact, its not just incredibly stupid, but demonstrates that the bills authors/sponsors are so fucking clueless that they have no ...

Tennessee Judge Could Be Removed From Bench for Expanding Absentee Voting in 2020 On 3/8/21 at 3:45 PM EST Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle, a Tennessee judge, faces possible removal from her position on the court in Davidson County, where Nashville is located. Republican legislators in the states House of Representatives are backing a resolution that would dismiss Lyle from the bench over a ruling that partially expanded Tennessees absentee voting permissions ahead of this past Novembers general el...