Tennessee Bill Passes Legislature, Making it a Felony for a City Councilmember to Vote in Favor of Creating a Sanctuary

Posted on by February 1, 2025

Tennessee bills to make it a felony for a local government official to cast a vote in favor of creating a sanctuary passed the legislature on January 30. The identical bills are SB 6002 and HB 6001.

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Tennessee Bill Passes Legislature, Making it a Felony for a City Councilmember to Vote in Favor of Creating a Sanctuary — 20 Comments

  2. “This is an additional requirement for eligibility to hold office, and most likely to achieve ballot access as well.”

    What do you mean?

  4. Is voting to violate federal law an official act? If sanctuary laws harbor federal fugitives, don’t they violate federal law?

  7. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/ken-martin-elected-new-dnc-chair/story?id=118345116

    DNC selects new leader after 2024 election disappointment
    Ken Martin secured 246.5 votes of the 428 members who voted.
    By Brittany Shepherd and Isabella Murray
    February 1, 2025, 1:12 PM
    Minnesota Democratic Party Chairman Ken Martin has been elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
    Martin secured 246.5 votes of the total 428 members who voted in person and by proxy.
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    any different commie donkey machinations with a new hack chair ???
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    wz — speech/debate ain’t actual votes —
    see sen m going to fed jail for bribery votes

  11. @Q
    If this new bill is signed into law, then if a Memphis city council member votes in favor of some local ordinance that creates a sanctuary, they will get convicted as a felon and removed from office. And then after they serve their sentence, they can’t become a city council member again unless a court reinstates that privelege. If they tried to run for office anyway, the government probably would refuse to print their name on the ballot. It’s similar to the Insurrection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

    @Q again:
    Marijuana’s still illegal federally, but there are stores now in my town that sell it. Also, some churches used to be sanctuaries, right?

    I just think it’s so weird to make voting for a bill a felony, no matter how bad or unconstitutional it is. The executive branch is supposed to say “no way, I’m not doing that, that’s a federal crime” and then it goes to court.

  15. This ordinance is probably unconstitutional but sanctuary cities, states and counties do not just protect the rights of the undocumented. Many county sheriffs refuse to enforce federal gun laws with which they disagree. Sanctuary can cut many ways.

  16. We have a national emergency, an armed invasion. We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children!

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