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Michael Harriot

Removing Black lawmakers is voter suppression – and the US has done it for centuries

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Justin Jones speaks to supporters on the steps of the Tennessee state capitol. Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters

When Tennessee lawmakers expelled two Black legislators from the state’s Republican-dominated house of representatives, pundits described the decision as “stunning” and “historic”. Joe Biden called it “shocking, undemocratic and without precedent”. The New York Times characterized it as “an extraordinary act of political retribution”.

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