Slatery joins Kentucky AG in arguing that restrictions on aid money are unconstitutional Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery is suing the federal government, arguing that strings tied to the billions of dollars in relief money coming to the state via the American Rescue Plan are unconstitutional. Slatery, joined by Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, argues that a provision in the COVID-19 stimulus bill that prohibits states from using the funds to lower taxes “unconstitutionally usurps the authority of each state’s legislature to enact beneficial tax policies.” “The states have a constitutional right to implement their own tax policy,” Slatery said in a release. “We should not have to choose between accepting COVID-19 relief funds or surrendering to Washington’s attempt to override what only our elected officials in Tennessee are authorized to do.”
Attorneys General Kentucky, Tennessee sue over stimulus tax rule
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By ANDY SHER | Chattanooga Times Free Press | Published: March 15, 2021 NASHVILLE (Tribune News Service) Although the state Historical Commission last week approved removing the Tennessee Capitol s bust of Confederate cavalry general and early Ku Klux Klan leader Nathan Bedford Forrest, don t count on the long-controversial bronze image departing any time soon. It s a process expected to take at least four months. And that s if anything happens at all given the preliminary legal skirmishing among the state s top Republican elected officials Gov. Bill Lee, who backs the bust s removal, and Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, the Senate speaker, and House Speaker Cameron Sexton, who have opposed removal.