GOP lawmaker seeks to remove Nashville judge over absentee voting ruling

[TexasTowelie]

A Republican lawmaker filed legislation on Wednesday to begin the process to remove the Nashville judge whose ruling last year expanded absentee voting during the pandemic.

State Rep. Tim Rudd’s resolution would authorize state Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton to appoint a committee to consider the removal of Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle.

Rudd said he filed the resolution in response to Lyle’s ruling, which allowed fear of COVID-19 as an acceptable reason to request an absentee ballot. Lyle’s order expanded absentee voting substantially for the August primary election.

The state Supreme Court reversed the portion of Lyle’s ruling regarding fear of the virus as a reason to vote by mail, but the court upheld much of her order. At the 11th hour, state attorneys reversed their pleadings in the lower court and told the Supreme Court the state would relent on allowing voters with pre-existing conditions making them susceptible to COVID-19 to vote by mail.

Read more: https://tennesseelookout.com/2021/02/26/gop-lawmaker-seeks-to-remove-nashville-judge-over-absentee-voting-ruling/

[Turbineguy]

1. If you don't kill people

you'll get in trouble with the republicans.

[OldBaldy1701E]

2. Pot and kettle

Are the same people who are plotting to remove every single person who did not do what these rethugs wanted the same people who have been screaming about a trump 'witch hunt'? Let's see... we have a former president who has discredited the office as well as done things that would make both Manson and Weinstein blush, and we have various officials who were doing their jobs while clarifying and correcting issues with voter rights. Surely the same thing, yes? The hypocrisy of the rethug party knows no bounds and is yet another reason why it needs to be allowed to end.