Tennessee GOP begins expulsion process for 3 Democrats, House session devolves into chaos

Me, personally, I would have been unbelievably upset. I am older now and still get upset by certain things, but the 18-20 year old version of me was very much more prone to responding emotionally... as you could imagine. The difference between me, a regular college student back in my time, and a D1 athlete is that these guys have worked hard to try and make it to the college level and hopefully the pros. University of Tennessee provides a very real avenue to becoming a multi-millionaire and a famous athlete. I couldn't fault any of those athletes for not doing anything to protest the actions.

Plus, there are many people who don't follow or care about politics at all, so there's that. Some will undoubtedly just ignore it as noise. Some might even agree with what happened to the Representatives, though based on demographics it would likely be the minority amongst black athletes.

 

honestly, and somewhat sadly, this is the best path to slow the southern conservative legistatures down. If 30 kids left UT or Bama over it, they would stop this idiocy in a nanosecond. Nothing comes before college football.

 

Queue the I'm not watching college football anymore posts on social media. I remember during the anthem kneeling protest days people at work would tell me they aren't watching the NFL this season, and it was a way to declare their politics without having to say it directly.

 

So the white woman stays even though she keeps bad company. No one can accuse that legislature of misogyny!

 

Look for other gop supermajority state legislatures to do the same. They'll make shit up if they need too.

 

or players on pro teams refuse to play in 10rc, or minority owned businesses refuse to do business there.

 

It took South Carolina like a decade for that to work on them. Remember the ncaa refusing to allow them to host events? California and other states refusing to do business with them etc?

 

It may have been a breach of decorum but the reaction seems to me a very clear violation of 1st amendment rights and those rights are usually sacrosanct. In the famous NYT vs Sullivan the majority (6-3) opinion stated in part: The general proposition that freedom of expression upon public questions is secured by the First Amendment has long been settled by our decisions. The constitutional safeguard, we have said, "was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people." ... "t is a prized American privilege to speak one's mind, although not always with perfect taste, on all public institutions." ... The First Amendment, said Judge Learned Hand, "presupposes that right conclusions are more likely to be gathered out of a multitude of tongues, than through any kind of authoritative selection. To many, this is, and always will be, folly; but we have staked upon it our all."

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan - Wikipedia

And that ruling seems definitive in this instance to this legal layman.

 

They clearly violated the rules of the body so punishment was fair. But what the republicans settled on was a massive overreaction.

 

Aka their revenge for the indictment/insurrection

 

This thread gets more and more comical by the hour.

 

Did they break the law... or commit an act that is worthy of censure or rebuke?

But more importantly, are the Pubs within their legal right to take the action that they did?

 

Yep, these commie/zero tolerance clowns love to ruin Pub lives, but when the shoe is on the other foot they pull out their handy little race-card... because they don't leave home without it.

 

On fire today!

 

Nearly two weeks after a woman pretending to be a man murdered three children and three adults, Kamala Harris is headed to Nashville to meet with their heartbroken families.

Just kidding. She’s headed there to support the Transurrection.

 

She's a sad piece of work. The murderer is the victim in these communists' minds.

 

Funny note: when I moved to Louisiana, the state was about to declare the academic equivalent of bankruptcy for LSU to essentially shut down the university 2 weeks early and open all tenured contracts. The thing that motivated the legislature to fund the university and stop this? A report from the Governor that shutting LSU down 2 weeks early would make all of the football players ineligible the next fall. Not the hospitals having to shut. Not the fact that nobody would have been able to graduate. Nope, it was football that saved LSU.

https://www.si.com/college/2016/02/15/could-budget-crisis-cause-lsu-football-miss-next-season

 

You're right. Damn the circumstances and prior precedent, let's just do whatever is permissible under law. What's the max sentence Trump is facing for the hush money payments if convicted? 134 years? Seems a little high to me but it's allowed under the law.

 

Have not seen it stated by anyone that would know, that laws were broken. They broke rules of decorum sorta like what MTG and Boebert did during Biden’s state of the union speech. But they weren’t expelled or even reprimanded as far as I know

 

Well, Rep Jones gets a brief break but is headed right back to the statehouse. Yay!

Majority of Nashville council members say they will vote to reinstate expelled legislator

Twenty-three members of the 40-seat Metropolitan Council confirmed to NBC News or on social media that they plan to vote to reinstate Jones to the Legislature.