In what appears to be the first expulsion from the chamber in state history, Tennessee’s state senate voted to remove one of their own from the chamber, after a Democratic state senator was convicted on charges of wire fraud over alleged misuse of federal grant money.
Tennessee Senator Katrina Robinson – one of three Black women, all Democrats, in the majority-white Republican-dominated chamber – called the vote a “procedural lynching” and premature, as many of the counts against her had been dropped and her sentencing hearing is still weeks away.
