Tennessee Lookout

4 days ago | tennesseelookout.com | Sam Stockard

by Sam Stockard, Tennessee Lookout June 23, 2025 Tennessee’s campaign finance watchdog group has requested an investigation into a former state staffer’s secret political action committee to determine whether it involved criminal activity.

1 week ago | tennesseelookout.com | Sam Stockard

Tennessee’s Republican leaders took a victory lap Wednesday for the U.S. Supreme Court decision backing their prohibition on gender affirming care for minors as one used it for a springboard to urge a national ban. The court’s 6-3 ruling is not a landmark decision but says Tennessee’s law is legal in that the legislature has the authority to pass healthcare-related bills.

1 week ago | tennesseelookout.com | Sam Stockard

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a potential landmark decision, upheld Tennessee’s law prohibiting gender affirming care for minors, saying children who seek the treatment don’t qualify as a protected class. In United States v. Skrmetti, the high court issued a 6-3 ruling Wednesday overturning a lower court’s finding that the restrictions violate the constitutional rights of children seeking puberty blockers and hormones to treat gender dysphoria.

1 week ago | tennesseelookout.com | Anita Wadhwani

In a legislative session dominated by the GOP supermajority’s conservative agenda, Tennessee lawmakers this spring took the unusual, bipartisan step of protecting certain reproductive rights. Beginning July 1, Tennessee will become the first — and only — state in the South to have codified the right to access fertility treatments and birth control into state law. Introduced by two Republican women and signed into law by Gov.

1 week ago | tennesseelookout.com | Sam Stockard

Tennessee State University inked an operating agreement with the state Tuesday to bolster finances after nearly a year of upheaval over shortfalls. Days after the TSU Board of Trustees approved a 6%  increase in tuition and fees for the next school year, TSU and state officials signed a memorandum of understanding allowing the university to use $96 million for operations over three years, money initially approved for campus maintenance.