Qasim Rashid, Esq.Apr 7, 2023

TN GOP just expelled Rep Justin Jones for peacefully demanding gun reform.

Jones reminded that the GOP refused to expel Republicans who molested children, abused women, are under federal investigation, & urinated in the chamber. GOP expelled him anyway.

The danger is beyond MAGA expelling Democrats for the "crime" of demanding accountability for gun violence. It's that if this injustice goes unchecked, MAGAs nationwide will do the exact same. This is how fascism & single party rule takes hold.

Show threadkaterbergApr 7, 2023

@QasimRashid @seldo it’s madness that you can expel a member with a simple majority.

Edit you can’t but they have a super majority of racists

Show threadRiley S. FaelanApr 7, 2023

@katerberg: Looks like Tennessee constitution requires a 2/3 supermajority to expel a member.

Unfortunately, the Republicans have a 3/4 supermajority there right now, and not enough of the Republicans dare to stand up against the creeping fascism.

@QasimRashid @seldo

Show threadkaterberg
@riley @QasimRashid @seldo ah okay. It’s obviously not a good thing but it sounds like a non-structural problem.
Apr 7, 2023 at 12:07pmWeb
Show threadRiley S. FaelanApr 7, 2023
@katerberg: No, it is a structural problem, but the structure in question is of the legislators' character, and of the thoroughly ratfucked election system of Tennessee, not of this part of the Tennessee constitution. @QasimRashid @seldo
Show threadkaterbergApr 8, 2023
@riley @QasimRashid @seldo oh yeah this is some structural racism colliding with personal racism in the most obvious of ways