{"id":144160,"date":"2025-03-10T03:50:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T03:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144160"},"modified":"2025-03-10T03:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T03:50:58","slug":"tennessee-gop-advances-bill-barring-undocumented-immigrants-from-bringing-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=144160","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tennessee\u00a0GOP\u00a0Advances Bill Barring Undocumented Immigrants from Bringing Lawsuits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2025\/2\/26\/headlines\/tennessee_gop_advances_bill_barring_undocumented_immigrants_from_bringing_lawsuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democracy Now!<\/a>: &#8220;In Tennessee, Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prohibit undocumented immigrants from pursuing most lawsuits, such as suing for medical malpractice. This is Nashville civil rights attorney Chris Smith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Chris Smith<\/strong>: \u201cIt deprives undocumented immigrants of the right to bring a declaratory judgment action. That\u2019s the vehicle under Tennessee law where you can challenge the constitutionality of a statute. So, by saying you can\u2019t even file lawsuits to challenge the constitutionality, it\u2019s a complete stripping of rights of undocumented people.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democracy Now!: &#8220;In Tennessee, Republican lawmakers have introduced a bill that would prohibit undocumented immigrants from pursuing most lawsuits, such as suing for medical malpractice. This is Nashville civil rights attorney Chris Smith. Chris Smith: \u201cIt deprives undocumented immigrants of the right to bring a declaratory judgment action. That\u2019s the vehicle under Tennessee law where&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144161,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144160\/revisions\/144161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}