Attorney & mediator in Nashville, Tennessee
Areas of practice: Employment, construction, estate planning & probate, general civil litigation.
Frequent transit user, bike rider, and walker in my city, which doesn't have enough sidewalks.
Abogado y mediador bilingüe en Nashville, Tennessee.
Eley says in the article: "We need to take a hard look at what has worked well in peer states and how we can build on that to meet our needs." And I agree!
But #Tennessee has been ignoring what works in other states for years, particularly in funding transit and building connections between communities. It's crazy that we don't have better commuter rail or bus service for cities to suburbs. TN could have a crucial leadership role in creating #RegionalTransit, and instead it builds roadblocks.
"While states around the country have moved toward giving people convicted of felonies a chance to vote again, Tennessee has gone in the other direction. Over the past two decades, the state has made it more difficult for residents to get their right to vote back. In particular, lawmakers have added requirements that residents first pay any court costs and restitution and that they be current on child support."
https://www.propublica.org/article/tennessee-black-voters-disenfranchised
I feel like the Sixth Circuit deserves some commendation for this opinion that tackles both qualified immunity AND a so-called sovereign citizen acting pro se. Incidentally, the pro se plaintiff prevailed.
Sarah Fackrell
JB Emmons