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CNN — The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted to confirm the reappointment of Justin J. Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending him back to fill the House District 86 seat as an interim representative. The vote to return Pearson to his seat – vacated last Thursday when the GOP-dominated chamber expelled the state representative after he and two other
A Democrat expelled last week from the Tennessee House of Representatives cultivated a very different persona while running to be his college’s student body president in 2016, newly unearthed video has shown. Former state Rep. Justin Pearson is seen smiling in a suit and tie and speaking in measured tones about his campaign to lead
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee — a staunch Republican — signed an executive order yesterday to make it (a little bit) tougher for criminals to buy guns by strengthening background checks. It’s doubtful the hypocritical anti-drag governor would have signed such an order had it not been for the tragic Nashville elementary school shooting that touched
A 2022 Supreme Court ruling changed the boundaries of America’s fight over guns. The latest mass-shooting tragedies raise the question: Where does gun reform go next? First, here are three new stories from The Atlantic: Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend is no Nazi. Elon Musk’s free-speech charade is over. An institution that’s been broken for 200
Earlier this week, the Maryland 2023 legislative session came to a close, and several bills that we opposed have passed. These bills include SB1, HB 824, and SB 858. Senate Bill 1 (“SB 1”) further restricts where someone can carry a firearm by arbitrarily and drastically expanding the number of places labeled as “sensitive places” where
Update: On April 12, the Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to reinstate Justin J. Pearson to his seat in the Tennessee House. MEMPHIS — In January, my former high school classmate Larry Thorn was shot dead. Larry was sweet and beloved and a coach and secretary at a Shelby County, Tenn., middle school
The supposedly pro-gun majority in the Alabama House has scheduled committee hearings for three anti-gun bills. Please contact your state representative and demand that they stop moving House Bills 12, 28, and 234. House Bill 12 violates Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by making it a Class A misdemeanor for lawful citizens to not inform
It’s true for anything, but especially true for guns: If you repeat a lie often enough, it gets believed by the establishment media. Take so-called “assault weapons.” No such thing really exists, but the term is used as a vague legal description of scary-looking guns like the AR-15 that were banned during former President Bill
MEMPHIS — In January, my former high school classmate Larry Thorn was shot dead. Larry was sweet and beloved and a coach and secretary at a Shelby County, Tenn., middle school when he was killed on Jan. 10, just a month before I took my seat in the State House. In February, in only 10
A California Democrat is continuing a years-long push to impose a state tax on guns and ammunition that lawmakers have long debated with little success. Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, D-Woodland Hills, authored a bill that would levy an 11% excise tax on firearm dealers, manufacturers and ammunition vendors for receipts on guns, gun parts and ammunition. The measure
In the aftermath of a school shooting last month that left children as young as 9 years old dead in the state he represents, a Republican congressman from Tennessee publicly declared that Congress “is not going to fix” gun violence. This statement is infuriating, especially because gun violence kills over 100 Americans a day. But
Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross In a letter to John Roberts this week, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) implored the Supreme Court chief justice to tackle two major accountability items. | Leah Millis/Pool via AP DRIVING THE DAY NEW FROM JMART — “How Tennessee Became the Poster State for
“Republicans are openly distressed about the prospect of losing younger voters over their stances on abortion, firearms and democracy,” Politico reports. “By week’s end, their challenges on those three fronts could grow worse.” “Days after a mass shooting in Louisville, Ky., many declared and undeclared 2024 candidates will be brandishing their Second Amendment bona fides
The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the gun policies that spawned it. Neither Justin Jones, of Nashville, nor Justin Pearson, of Memphis,
MEMPHIS — In January, my former high school classmate Larry Thorn was shot dead. Larry was sweet and beloved and a coach and secretary at a Shelby County, Tenn., middle school when he was killed on Jan. 10, just a month before I took my seat in the State House. In February, in only 10
Drew Angrerer/Getty Images Justice Clarence Thomas seated next to his wife, conservative activist Ginni Thomas, at an event at the Heritage Foundation celebrating his thirty-year career on the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., October 21, 2021 Men can be measured by their real or imaginary peeves. The longer one carries them around, they more they shrink
Nearly every Republican senator signed onto a Tuesday resolution honoring the National Rifle Association (NRA), which is holding its 152nd annual convention in Indianapolis this weekend. Democrats didn’t speak in opposition to the resolution nor did anyone recognize recent victims of mass shootings. On Monday, five died in a shooting at a Louisville bank and