Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson, a Knoxville Democrat and retired public school teacher, embarks Tuesday on what she calls an "announcement" tour
A trio of Georgia and Tennessee Republican congressional members are mounting three separate efforts to defund ongoing criminal prosecutions of Donald Trump.
The White House is slamming U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after the Northwest Georgia congresswoman said this week she won't vote to fund the federal government if the U.S. House doesn't go along with an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.
Parents of children at a Nashville Christian elementary school where a shooter killed three children and three adults March 27 are vowing to return to the Tennessee legislature next year.
Tennessee's special legislative session on public safety, called by Gov. Bill Lee after a deadly Nashville private school shooting in March, came to a chaotic close Tuesday, with Republican supermajorities in both the Senate and House continuing to forgo any new gun restrictions.
A Davidson County chancellor ruled Monday that Tennessee House Republicans’ rule banning visitors from carrying small handheld signs in the chamber’s galleries and committees will continue to be blocked under the temporary restraining order she issued last week as lawmakers meet in special session.
A legal challenge to a Davidson County judge's temporary restraining order that blocks new Tennessee House of Representatives' rules banning protest signs during the special legislative session on public safety will be heard Monday morning by Chancellor Anne Martin, the chancellor who issued the restraining order Friday.
Tennessee lawmakers are set to return to the state Capitol on Monday to begin their second week of a special legislative session on public safety, guns and mental health that so far shows little sign of resolution amid an increasingly bitter stalemate between Senate and House majority Republicans.
Tennessee's special legislative session on public safety, guns and mental health will stretch into next week as top leaders in the Republican-led Senate and House remained at loggerheads Thursday over what actions to take following the deadly March 27 private school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, including three children.
Tempers erupted in a Tennessee House committee Wednesday evening after a Republican lawmaker moved to cut off debate on a bill to expand the pool of people who can bring guns on school property, including at sporting events.
