[aimhigh]

Isn't it amazing how no additional restrictions are allowed for this, but they are for the 2nd Amendment.

[SES1066]

I do believe that Washington State, for one, has a similar law that a former NYTimes columnist is legally challenging! Yet this escapes the LEFT’s attack?

Curious, no?

[escapefromboston]

Bill Lee was my favorite sox pitcher when I was growing up.

[tennmountainman]

It’s not new. Rule was changed in 2017 by TN GOP.
More fake news.

[Alberta's Child]

Tennessee got around the constitutional problem by only applying the residency requirement to party primaries. Anyone who meets the requirements for holding federal office laid out in the U.S. Constitution can still run for those offices, but they have to run as write-in candidates or independents.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The Constitution may not prohibit them from running, but there is nothing that says that they have to be allowed to run on a particular party.

[TexasGurl24]

There is nothing in the Constitution that lets a person run as a party candidate.

The party sets those rules. Ortagus is perfectly free to run for Congress in TN. She just can’t do it as a Republican.

[FreeReign]

Any law passed on this is unconstitutional.

However the political parties CAN make such rules. And the TN GOP did exactly that.

[dadfly]

ah yes. the illegal “laws” passed by the two party firsters to protect their so called tax funded “primaries” against the American people, including their own party voters. they should all be abolished.

choose your party candidates in a a non-taxpayer, party funded, transparent convention of party delegates or people. all American citizens who are card carrying party members welcome to vote or run. simple, fair, no “protective” laws necessary. just like voting with stocks, only one “stock” per member.

let them all run and let the people decide.

[marktwain]

Election Laws - As enacted, requires that a person meet the residency requirements for state senators and representatives contained in the Tennessee constitution in order to qualify as a candidate in a primary election for congress. - Amends TCA Title 2. SB2616 has been assigned Public Chapter Number 857 by the Secretary of State.

Yes, it clearly applies to primaries, not to national elections.

[Born in 1950]

“Why.. is blatantly”

If it’s blatant then it doesn’t require an explanation.

[fieldmarshaldj]

We Tennesseans support this residency and eligibility requirement to prevent carpetbaggers and phonies from trying to buy office.

[mmichaels1970]

Article I, Section II of the Constitution provides that “No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.” That’s it.

Didn’t read the whole article of the Constitution. But this passage appears to define who can’t be a rep. Not necessarily who can. In other words, I’d read it that a state can make it more restrictive, as long as those basic conditions are met.