Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Zooey Zephyr Is Suing for the Right to Speak In the Montana Legislature https://jezebel.com/zooey-zephyr-suing-censure-montana-legislature-1850391513 #Jezebel #unitedstateshouseofrepresentatives #bradleymurfitt #hollymichels #unitedstates #zooeyzephyr #mattregier #government #sarahvelk #amyregier #deanchou #politics #montana #censure #regier #zooey

#Montana G.O.P. Bars #Transgender Lawmaker From House Floor

The move was the culmination of a weeklong battle between House leadership and Representative #ZooeyZephyr after her impassioned comments over a #bill that would prohibit care for transgender minors.

“When I rose up and said, ‘There is blood on your hands,’ I was not being hyperbolic. I was speaking to the real consequences of the votes that we as legislators take in this body,” she said. She added that when Mr. #Regier refused to let her speak, he was also “driving a nail in the coffin of #democracy.”

https://nyti.ms/3NfSUXi

"#Republican Sen. Keith #Regier is proposing asking #Congress to study alternatives to reservations. The measure, ...riddled with racial stereotypes,... causing tensions to surface at the Republican-controlled Montana Legislature that kicked off this week."

The cerebral torpor of the #GOP today extends down to every state and municipality. It's just baffling how a party could be so metastatic to itself. It has zero ideas of note on the future of any kind.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-new-mexico-state-government-montana-18a03c0ddfd91164d80d9b67390a8cce