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Stop performance act legislating: Tennessee lawmakers pursue spectacle rather than policy • Tennessee Lookout

Tennessee House Majority Leader William Lamberth is sponsoring a bill that would challenge a Supreme Court ruling and deny public education to children in the U.S. without permanent legal status. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)Let’s face it — public policy is boring. It can be historic and morally uplifting, as in the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It can be consequential and helpful, as in the G. I. Bill of Rights. It can be liberating, as wa…