A former state employee is suing Tennessee, the state legislature and House Speaker Cameron Sexton over alleged retaliation, claiming that he was fired from his research job for raising concerns about campaign finance and corruption, a violation of whistleblower protections.
The Tennessee Human Rights Commission will cease to exist at the end of the month under a law passed this spring that targeted the independent agency that oversees discrimination complaints.
Rep. Andy Ogles announced that a pair of Congressional committees will investigate Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell in response to O'Connell's disapproval of recent immigration raids in the city.
Staff of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission were informed they would be laid off ahead of the dissolution of the commission, despite being told their jobs would transfer to a new department.
In five days of swarming state roads to find undocumented immigrants, the Tennessee Highway Patrol said it has made 468 immigration-probing traffic stops as of early Thursday, resulting in nearly 100 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detentions.
A few short years after allowing the retail sale of cannabis for the first time, Tennessee lawmakers moved to limit the sales of certain types of hemp-derived products beginning in 2026.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol and federal immigration officials descended upon Nashville's predominantly Latino neighborhoods in the wee hours of Sunday morning, making around 150 traffic stops, detaining an unknown number of people and quickly bussing some to out-of-state immigration centers.
With the first part of a two-year session resolved, this is where legislation on gun control, immigration, marijuana and other major issues stand
A proposed bill that would allow school districts to charge tuition for or deny public education to undocumented children may be delayed until next year as funding questions loom.
Tennessee lawmakers are considering a bill to dissolve the state's Human Rights Commission, a move staff and previous commissioners believe may be tied to the commission's ousted vice chair.
