Most Tennessee House Democrats Stripped of Their Committee Assignments

Most Tennessee House Democrats have been stripped of their committee assignments for “instigating and encouraging disruptions” in coordination with “paid protestors and attendees” and using “prohibited props and noisemakers on the House Floor.”

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat,” Tennessee state House Rep. Justin Pearson (D-District 86) said in a Tuesday X post, before bizarrely implying the punishment was due to race, noting that “every black elected official in the state legislature” was stripped from their committees.

The Tennessee state House Representative was reacting to an X post by Daily Memphian reporter Julia Baker, who announced that “House Speaker Cameron Sexton has removed Democratic Caucus members from standing committees until next session due to ‘disrupting processes’ and ‘creating disorder’ during the special session.”

The matter was also confirmed in a letter obtained by WSMV, sent from Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) to Minority Leader Karen