The latest instance of one party deciding who can be heard during legislative debate has ended for now after a judge denied a transgender lawmaker's bid to return to the Montana House floor
in which Republicans have tried to equate nonviolent protests with insurrection.
The two Tennessee Democrats were expelled from office by Republicans after chanting along with gun control supporters who packed the state's House gallery in response to acensured a nonbinary Democratic The party-line vote removed Rep. Mauree Turner, the first openly nonbinary and first Muslim person elected to the Oklahoma Legislature, from all committee assignments. Turner could have kept the positions by issuing a formal apology but, like Zephyr, refused.Zephyr was not barred from committee proceedings and could be appointed to an interim committee, which meets between legislative sessions. She would have to be reelected to get back onto the chamber floor.
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