Tennessee Settlement Would End Felony Enforcement over Local Officials’ Immigration Votes

Tennessee, ACLU reach deal in lawsuit over law criminalizing officials voting for sanctuary policies

The state of Tennessee will not enforce a 2025 law that made it a felony for public officials to vote in favor of sanctuary policies for immigrants, according to a pending settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union-Tennessee. The ACLU-TN…

Tennessee settlement would end felony enforcement over local officials’ immigration votes

Tennessee would no longer criminalize local officials for how they vote on 'sanctuary policies' under a proposed settlement announced Wednesday.If approved by t

Settlement: Tennessee AG concedes sanctuary city voting law is ‘unconstitutional’

A Tennessee law that tried to criminalize public officials for voting in favor of sanctuary city policies will not take effect. Passed last year amid a flurry of immigration measures, the law policed how local officials vote. It permitted the attorney general to initiate the process to remove local officials from their post. It also allowed him to charge the officials with a felony if they were to cast votes in favor of a sanctuary city policy —…

Tennessee AG, Metro Council agree sanctuary city law is unconstitutional - Nashville Banner

The Tennessee Attorney General’s Office and seven Metro councilmembers filed an agreed order Thursday that renders a controversial law passed last year by the General Assembly unconstitutional. The act made it a felony — with the possibility of one to six years in prison — for local government officials to adopt, implement or vote for “sanctuary policies,” or acts that would limit Metro cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. …