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Tennessee
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 52 stories to Tennessee since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Tennessee.
25days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Tennessee
10 storiesJustice Department moves to end more than 50 school desegregation cases from the 1960s and 1970s, calling them "onerous and outdated."
Over 75% of division staff gone
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Government now calls own case abuse
Judge orders Tennessee to preserve IV lines, syringes and drugs from Christa Pike's botched execution after her lawyers say they don't trust the attorney general.
Shackles, tablet rulings still pending
ICE arrests Nashville reporter who covers immigration enforcement, jailing her for nearly two days with no release yet as her attorneys fight to reunite her with her young daughter.
Life threatened in Colombia for reporting
DEA agent kills a fugitive during a Memphis hotel arrest, the second fatal shooting by federal task force members in the city in four days.
TBI investigating, name not released
Tennessee National Guard soldiers on Memphis task force duty fatally shoot a 20-year-old man police say turned a handgun toward them during a foot chase.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation leading probe
A Tennessee judge temporarily blocks the state from handing immigration enforcement the names of about 400 chronically ill undocumented children before a law forcing the disclosure takes effect.
Families told to disenroll or be reported
A Tennessee law drafted with Stephen Miller will report roughly 400 chronically ill immigrant children to ICE if they keep getting lifesaving state-funded care past June 30.
Four families already withdrew sick kids
Tennessee retired officer wins $835,000 settlement after Perry County jailed him 37 days for Facebook meme about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Bail was set at $2 million
JAMA study finds miscarriage patients in 14 abortion-ban states get less effective treatment as doctors avoid mifepristone over criminal liability fears.
Expectant management raises hemorrhage risk
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
ProPublica review finds immigration agents detained 506 US citizens since January 2025, including at least 70 children, as DHS denies arresting citizens by mistake.
About a dozen citizens deported
Documents show Homeland Security bought five planes for $304 million from then-Secretary Noem's donor on her last morning, including a $108 million luxury 737.
Gulfstreams marked up $11 million apiece
Fighting back
3 storiesProtesters fill Tennessee and Alabama capitols as three Southern states advance maps targeting Black-majority districts a week after Louisiana ruling.
One week after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act
Federal judge voids FEMA rule withholding 20% of states' counterterrorism funds unless they plan a switch to hand-marked paper ballots and verify voters' citizenship.
No terrorism link ever explained
Federal appeals court keeps blocking Tennessee law making it a crime to tell minors about legal out-of-state abortions, ruling it violates the First Amendment.
Speech urging carrying to term untouched
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