Ian Round

Tennesseans support abortion access and gun reform and, perhaps as a result, they’re not so happy with the state’s lawmakers, according to a new poll from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

DeAndre Brown, who runs the Shelby County Office of Re-Entry, was pardoned by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Dec. 15. The pardon means his right to vote will be restored.

The Memphis and Shelby County Community Redevelopment Agency dropped an effort to seize a property by eminent domain after people sent letters to elected officials and the judge presiding over the case.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has held office as a “conservative education revolution” has swept Republican-controlled states. This includes school vouchers. He has not made much progress on criminal justice.

If state attorney general J onathan Skrmetti says Bill Lee can temporarily assign judges from around Tennessee to help handle criminal cases in Shelby County, Taylor will request he do so “immediately.”

A Tennessee General Assembly bill sponsored by Gino Bulso, R-Brentwood, would ban flags in public schools that “represent a political viewpoint” — namely, the rainbow LGBTQ pride flag, is delayed a week.

The one-time refund and the prospective cuts are listed in Gov. Bill Lee’s proposed $52.6 billion fiscal year 2025 budget, released Monday, Feb. 5, ahead of his sixth annual State of the State address.

A bill sponsored by state Rep. Johnny Garrett, R-Goodlettsville, would prevent local governments from sending Tennessee General Assembly members who are expelled “for disorderly behavior” back to the same seat.

The bill would eliminate two courts: Shelby County Circuit Court Division 7, currently held by Judge Mary Wagner, and Shelby County Criminal Court Division 9, a seat held — for now — by Judge Melissa Boyd.

At the Tennessee General Assembly legislation on banning rainbow Pride flags in schools, alerting parents when students request to change their pronouns, and regarding LGBTQ foster children near passage.