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The Week in Review

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Memphis City Council members announced a legal maneuver last week that they equated to standing up to a bully. In this case, and in their estimation, that bully is the state’s Republican legislative leadership. The City Council is suing the Shelby County Election Commission over its decision to not include a three-part, gun-control ballot question on city voters’ November ballots. Memphis Mayor Paul Young said the referendum was “futile” and quickly cast the council’s move as not worth “escalating tensions” in the city’s relationship with state lawmakers. Most recently, the lawsuit is in the hands of Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson who is set to hear the case Sept. 16.

Also, The Daily Memphian reported on the rising tide of enhanced cell-phone restrictions at local middle and high schools; Wanda Halbert’s attorneys invoking a Florida federal court decision that threw charges against former President Donald Trump as part of their argument to dismiss ouster proceedings against her; and Frederick Agee, district attorney general for Tennessee’s 28th judicial district, calling for a criminal investigation into state Sen. Brent Taylor for documents Taylor posted online last month.

— Metro editor Jane Donahoe

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The Memphis City Council’s lawsuit to vote for citywide gun-control measures in November pushes on as the September deadline for the ballot approaches. 

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Mayor Young calls gun control referendum futile By
 
 
Wanda Halbert uses Donald Trump case as defense By
 
 
Two alleged nightclub shooters, two vastly different bonds By
 
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Calkins: Jermaine 'FunnyMaine' Johnson is a Memphian to take seriously By
 
 
Election Commission won't add gun-control referendum in November By
 
 
Memphis City Council sues Election Commission over gun-control vote By
 
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Some schools are pulling the plug on student phones By
 
 
Tennessee DA Agee takes page from Brent Taylor's playbook By
 
 
Environmentalists urge health department to take action on xAI By
 
 
MATA to eliminate routes and lay off about half of staff By
 
 
Secretary of State won't let Memphians vote on local gun control By
 
 
Fewer firsts: Female judges talk diminishing gender gap By
 
 
Memphis v. Tennessee: A Republican majority meets a Democratic one By
 
 
Sentencing board formed after Eliza Fletcher's death begins review By
 
 
Elevators at 201 Poplar keep going down By
 
 
Carol Coletta leaving Memphis River Parks Partnership helm By
 
 

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