The Tennessee Legislature’s plot to knock a Trumpy candidate off the poll this 12 months has failed. Morgan Ortagus, who labored in President Trump’s State Division, moved to Nashville final 12 months and is operating for an open Home seat. Per week earlier than the April 7 submitting deadline, the Legislature handed a invoice to require three years of residency.
That is probably unconstitutional, but it surely additionally stinks just like the swamp. A key sponsor of the invoice helps one in all Ms. Ortagus’s opponents, former state Home Speaker Beth Harwell. What an unique little membership. Gov. Invoice Lee neither signed nor vetoed the residency laws. No motion by Tennessee’s chief government means a invoice turns into regulation after 10 days. That occurred Wednesday.
