A heated exchange between Memphis Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson and Sevierville Republican Rep. Andrew Farmer forced the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee into recess on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Photo: John Partipilo)
Kaiden Tharpe, right, participates in the International Transgender Day of Visibility rally to raise awareness about their experience in Memphis, Tennessee March 31, 2025. (Photo by Karen Pulfer Focht for Tennessee Lookout) Covenant School mom Sarah Shoop Neumann hugs Rep. Shaundelle Brooks after Brooks’ firearm bill advanced from the Tennessee House Criminal Justice Subcommittee on March 26, 2025. The women bonded over their gun reform advocacy. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Wrapped in the flag. U.S. Rep. John Rose hugs supporter Natisha Brooks after announcing his candidacy for governor on March 20, 2025 . (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Justin Wilkins and daughter Emmie recite the Pledge of Allegiance, which disrupted the House Banking and Consumer Affairs Committee on March 19. (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn greeting visitors to the Tennessee Capitol during Ag Day on the Hill, March 18, 2025. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Rep. Justin Jones, a Nashville Democrat, leads his miniature horse, Webster, through the Cordell Hull Legislative Building on March 18, 2025. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Rev. Bernard LaFayette (center, in wheelchair and cloth cap) holds his wife Kate’s hand as they are wheeled over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 9, 2025 as part of 60th anniversary commemorations of Bloody Sunday, the 1965 attack on peaceful civil rights protestors that led to the Selma-to-Montgomery March and the Voting Rights Act. LaFayette ran the Selma voting rights campaign in 1965 and survived an assassination attempt. (John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout) Pratik Dash of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition yelled, “We will be back!” after a House committee advanced a measure that would allow public schools to deny education to children in the country without permanent legal status. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)