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Election Law Reform Proposals in 2021 Legislative Session a Mixed Bag
Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws Praises Efforts to Expand Early Voting Sites, Condemns Efforts to Require Fingerprint Verification at Polls FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE — A pair of election law reform bills…
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TSEL Lawsuit Overturns Unconstitutional Criminal Law That Selectively Banned Criticism of Candidates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NASHVILLE — The Davidson County Chancery Court ruled today that a criminal state statute violated Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws and other Tennesseans’ First Amendment right to knowingly falsely…
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Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws Wins Appeal, State Officials Permanently Barred from Deciding Who Can Speak About Politics and When
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Yesterday, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals affirmed a ruling by the Davidson County Chancery Court that two of Tennessee’s campaign finance statutes violated the…
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It Shouldn’t Be a Crime to Make Fun of Your State Representative. In Tennessee, It Is.
If you decide that you’ve had enough of the nonsense in Nashville and you send postcards to potential voters claiming your representative “has cauliflower for brains”—or if you publish or distribute any…
