State lawmaker pushes removal of Nashville judge over absentee voting ruling – By Mariah Timms, Yue Stella Yu (Nashville Tennessean) / Feb 27 2021
Tennessee Rep. Tim Rudd, R-Murfreesboro, has filed a resolution calling for the legislature to form a committee and remove Davidson County Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle from the bench.
Rudd, who chairs the House subcommittee on elections and campaign finance, said he filed the bill in response to Lyle’s ruling last year that expanded absentee voting — an action he deemed as judicial overreach.
“What Chancellor Lyle did was illegally interfering our election process by trying to suspend state law and implement her own policies, which is blatantly against the law,” he told The Tennessean on Friday.
Lyle declined to comment through a spokesperson Friday morning.
