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The Democrat controlled council reappointed him...

The Council be dammed. They are not superior in authority to the State legislature. Refuse to allow the ousted legislators entry to chambers. Enforce that order with arrest and detention if they attempt to violate it.

The Democrats have destroyed the rule of law. They can no longer claim protection under law. We are fools to continue playing that game.

And cut every dollar of State funding to the city of Nashville.

Fourteenth Amendment
Sect. 3 No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Sect. 5 The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

The class, defined above to explicitly include State legislators, when engaging in "insurrection or rebellion against", or giving "aid or comfort to the enemies of" the US Constitution is barred from holding that office. The left doesn't like it, but the 2nd IS part of the US Constitution and their actions could well be described as "insurrection or rebellion against", or giving "aid or comfort to the enemies of" the 2nd. So by the text of 14th §3 the TN 3 merit permanent removal from all offices under the US. Any TN state law or part of the TN constitution to the contrary would be superseded by this.

The only question is whether the US Congress, under 14th §5, has provided any active law to enforce this or whether through the last sentence of 14th §3 they removed all such enforcing legislation sometime after ratification. The left has repeatedly tried to use their J6 claims as a vehicle for barring GOP candidates via 14th §3 and wishes to apply that to President Trump. So the question is important to both sides and the specific language of remaining active enforcement legislation, if any, determines whether the left, or the right, can apply this to their opponents.