State struggles with constitutional questions under Lee
Gov. Bill Lee (visiting a COVID-19 test site at Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church June 19, 2020) is willing to face the legal battle over Tennessee’s new law to block abortions after a Republican-appointed judge stopped the measure from taking effect. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
Gov. Bill Lee is willing to pay the cost, no matter how high, in the legal battle over Tennessee’s new law to block abortions after a Republican-appointed judge stopped the measure from taking effect.
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Sam Stockard
Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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