On Tuesday, I wrote in regards to the Republican effort to restrict the attain and scope of initiatives and referendums as one other occasion of the occasion’s battle on majority rule. One factor I needed to incorporate, however couldn’t fairly combine into the construction of the column, was some extent in regards to the latest use of legislative expulsion to punish Democratic lawmakers who dissent from or problem Republican majorities.
We noticed this in Tennessee, clearly, the place Republicans expelled two Democratic members —…
