The surge gets more politically complex
National Guard outside of the Visible Music College Downtown on Sunday, Oct. 19. (Sophia Surrett/The Daily Memphian)
The surge of state and federal law enforcement in the city and the reactions to the surge are becoming more complicated politically as the line separating the surge from the reactions to it starts to blur at the three-week mark.
The weekend developments included:
A pending lawsuit in Davidson County Chancery Court over Governor Bill Lee’s deployment of the National Guard to Memphis. The lawsuit’s coalition of local elected leaders as plaintiffs lost its bid Friday, Oct. 10 for a temporary injunction to bar the Guard pending a full court hearing on the matter.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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