04-06-2023, 10:21 PM
The supermajority Republican Tenneessee legislature today voted to expel two African American male Democratic legislators. The white woman, also up on charges, was not expelled.
Their crime leading a chant about justice after the Nashville school murders. Nobody did anything illegal. Nobody was violent. No one caused any damage to the chamber. They broke chamber rules
Essentially they were given the death penalty for what amounted to a speeding ticket. Their districts will have to run special elections, which these expelled men are eligible to run in, which will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. These 2 districts are overwhelmingly Democratic so odds are these men will be back in their seats.
And we wonder why our governments are broken
Their crime leading a chant about justice after the Nashville school murders. Nobody did anything illegal. Nobody was violent. No one caused any damage to the chamber. They broke chamber rules
Essentially they were given the death penalty for what amounted to a speeding ticket. Their districts will have to run special elections, which these expelled men are eligible to run in, which will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. These 2 districts are overwhelmingly Democratic so odds are these men will be back in their seats.
And we wonder why our governments are broken
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