Majority party lawmakers punishing minority party members with different positions is becoming increasingly common, experts warn.
Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville gestures to supporters during a vote on his expulsion from the legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo: Seth Herald/Getty Imagescould have a rippling impact in state legislatures across the country, where political parties are entrenched on issues like gun control and abortion.
The Tennessee case could give parties nationwide more of a "green light" to use chamber rules to "deprive citizens of their representation in the statehouse," Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, told Axios ahead of the vote.In the first such partisan expulsion in Tennessee's modern history, state Reps.
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