From TNDP: As Legislative Session Starts, Tennessee Republicans Are Focused On Everything Except Helping Tennessee Families

Nashville, Tenn. (January 9, 2017) – As the 2018 Tennessee Legislative Session begins, Chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, Mary Mancini,released the following statement: “Every community in Tennessee is facing […]

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One of These Three Judges Is About to Become President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee

Three men, no women, are on President Barack Obama’s short list to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. All three are federal appeals court judges, Reuters reports. The three […]

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Bill penalizes those filing sexual harassment lawsuits — if they lose

Tennessee’s attorney general is pushing a revision in the rules for sexual harassment lawsuits at the same time he is investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Rep. Jeremy Durham, reports […]

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The House ‘baby parts’ committee had its first hearing, and it was just a wacko as you’d expect

The latest House Republican investigative boondoggle has lumbered into existence with the first hearing this week. It went off the rails nearly as much as the Benghazi committee’s Hillary Clinton […]

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One-third of all U.S. presidents appointed a Supreme Court justice in an election year

Eminent Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously described his fellow judges as “nine scorpions in a bottle,” but now they are reduced to eight. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing had […]

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