TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 19, 2020

A “bizarre” legislative session cut short by the COVD-19 pandemic came to a close in the early hours of Friday, the TN Journal reports. A last-minute deal to pass restrictions on abortions in certain cases caused House and Senate leaders to drop disagreements over the budget and wrap up their business. “The surprise nature of the decision to take up the bill after midnight (and behind closed doors) in the Senate, where leaders had earlier declared it would not be taken up this year, is only likely to fuel legal questions about the measure,” the paper reports. The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee filed a challenge to the law today. The Tennessean has more about the abortion bill while the Nashville Post looks at the budget deal.