Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Wednesday appealed to state lawmakers on a bipartisan basis to "set aside politics and personal pride" and pass an "extreme risk" order of protection measure intended to keep firearms away from people who pose a threat to others.
Republican state lawmakers voted Wednesday to approve expanding Tennessee's private school voucher program for low-income students into Hamilton and Knox counties.
Music artists Sheryl Crow and Amy Grant helped lead a group of fellow performers to the Tennessee Capitol on Tuesday. They visited Republican Gov. Bill Lee and then lobbied the legislature's GOP supermajority for new gun restrictions.
Republican U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, as well as four fellow GOP House members from Tennessee, are backing Donald Trump's 2024 presidential bid, the Trump campaign announced Monday, saying the six lawmakers are part of Trump's Tennessee federal leadership team.
A bill extending Tennessee's private-school voucher program for low-income students in the Hamilton County school district is expected to come before the Tennessee House on Monday.
This much is known: Two lawmakers were ousted from the Tennessee General Assembly over a gun-control demonstration on the House floor. They were returned within a week.
Leaked audio reveals tempers boiled over during a Tennessee House Republican caucus meeting this week, days after GOP members fell one vote short of expelling Rep. Gloria Johnson, a white Democrat from Knoxville, while removing two Black Democrats from office in an action that drew a tsunami of national news coverage, most of it negative.
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., fired off a letter Wednesday urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate last week's expulsions of two Black state Democratic legislators by Tennessee House Republicans.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee called Tuesday for state lawmakers to pass a law aimed at preventing guns from getting in the hands of people who are a danger to themselves or others.
Two freshmen Black Democrats expelled last week by Tennessee House Republicans over a gun protest with bullhorns on the House floor spent part 0f their Easter Sunday on national television vowing to return while also criticizing GOP members for expelling them.
