> "We have no visibility into what they are doing with the computer and data systems," one of the officials said. "That is creating great concern. There is no oversight. It creates real cybersecurity and hacking implications."
This seems beyond bad.
> The bill’s passage came despite concerns over the constitutionality of a provision creating a Class E felony, punishable by up to 6 years in prison and a $3,000 fine, for any public official who votes in favor of so-called sanctuary policies.
Besides Tennessee law prohibits creation of "sanctuary city" way before Trump came into power.
[1] https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/Billinfo/default.aspx?BillN...
[2] https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillN...
This makes it illegal to vote. That's first amendment protected behavior and has long been precedent. And once they set the precedent they can make voting a particular way illegal, they'll apply that same law to more and more laws - and then they'll apply it to citizens (based on the SCOTUS ruling that legislators have the same first amendement right as citizens). Stop being a fascist apologist and pretending this behavior is normal.
It is not God damn normal to outlaw voting a specific way. It's their job to represent their electorate and that's literally how we're supposed to change the system in democratic system. This is clearly a move to make it illegal to progressive.
But in this case, it didn't really change anything.
>making it a felony for public officials to back sanctuary policies.
Saying "vote against Republicans" makes it sound like voting against any Trump policy is a crime.
I'm sorry, are you being a fascist apologist here? Is it remotely acceptable to make it a crime to vote a given way as a democratically elected representative? Once a single such law exists, it's now precedent we can do it anywhere.
Such a law doesn't even exist for murder for obvious reasons.