The Tennessee GOP Is Trying to Wipe out the Opposition

Last week, Tennessee Democrats were kicked out of a meeting room while protesting the Tennessee GOP’s brazen attempt to gerrymander the state map and eliminate the legislature’s only Democratic representative—while carving up the majority-Black Memphis-area district he represents in the process. Now those same Democrats have been removed from every single committee assignment they held as further punishment. On Tuesday, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton wrote in a letter that “members of th...