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2 days ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
Kilmar Abrego Garcia spent his wedding anniversary on Wednesday in court. “It’s been 106 days since [my husband] was abducted by the Trump Administration and separated from our family,” Jennifer Vasquez Sura said at a presser held by the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition Wednesday morning. “He missed birthdays, graduations and Father’s Day.
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2 days ago | 
timesfreepress.com | Connor Daryani
Seven Metro Nashville Council members are suing over a state law that imposes felony charges -- including terms of up to six years in prison -- on local elected officials who vote in favor of immigration policies deemed to be "sanctuary policies."Carried by House Majority Leader William Lamberth and Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, Senate Bill 6002 passed through both chambers in February and is set to go into effect July 1.
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2 days ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
Seven Metro Councilmembers are suing over a state law that imposes felony charges — including terms of up to six years in prison — on local elected officials who vote in favor of immigration policies deemed to be “sanctuary policies.”Carried by House Majority Leader William Lamberth and Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, Senate Bill 6002 passed through both chambers in February and is set to go into effect on July 1.
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3 days ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is suing Tennessee’s 32 District Attorneys General over a law criminalizing people and organizations who provide shelter to undocumented immigrants. Under Senate Bill 392, which becomes effective on July 1 after passing the state legislature this year, anyone who “knows or should have known” that someone they are harboring is an undocumented immigrant could get hit with a class A misdemeanor.
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1 week ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
Gender-affirming care will continue to be unavailable to minors in Tennessee and 24 other states following a 6-3 ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. And the state’s leaders hope to see a ban enacted nationwide.
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2 weeks ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
Acting U.S. Attorney Robert McGuire argued on Friday that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should remain detained before his trial, based mainly on evidence obtained through second, third and even fourth-hand hearsay. Abrego Garcia is accused of participating in a human smuggling conspiracy spanning a decade, with the crux of the allegations resting on a November 2022 incident when he was pulled over in Putnam County driving an SUV full of alleged undocumented immigrants.
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2 weeks ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
When John Rose retired from the Air Force in 2021, he decided to cash out 20 years’ worth of savings to open a D1 Training franchise in San Antonio. “My daughters were attending a speed and agility location here in San Antonio called Red Line, another franchise,” said Rose, whose teenage daughters play soccer and golf. “It was a far drive for us — other side of town kind of thing.
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2 weeks ago | 
nashvillebanner.com | Connor Daryani
The descendants of Colonel Luke Lea — who donated the 800-plus acres that would become Percy Warner Park to the city of Nashville in 1927 — are threatening to take the land back from Metro if the city builds an access road to Cheekwood through the park. In recent years, Cheekwood and Percy Warner Park have been far from harmonious neighbors.
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3 weeks ago | 
nashvillescene.com | Connor Daryani |Nashville Banner
Metro will be required to cut the Metro Council in half after a split Tennessee Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday ruled that a state law that would cut the Metro Council in half is constitutional. In 2023, the Tennessee General Assembly passed a law capping all metro legislative bodies at 20 members.
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3 weeks ago | 
tullahomanews.com | Connor Daryani
After a three-week trial watched intensely by Tennessee’s political establishment, former Speaker of the House Glen Casada and his former chief of staff Cade Cothren were found guilty of honest services wire fraud, conspiracy, bribery, theft and money laundering. They could face decades behind bars for their crimes. The jury’s verdict came in around noon on the fourth day of deliberations. Cothren was found guilty on all 19 counts, while Casada managed to get off on two of the counts.
