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Round 1
Monterey Police answered a call about an unresponsive woman and walked straight into a worst‑case scenario: she had no pulse and wasn’t breathing.
They hit her with two doses of Narcan, kept working the scene, and managed to get her breathing and conscious again before EMS took over.
You know, one of those crazy nights where the difference between a tragedy and a second chance is about 30 seconds and a syringe.
Meanwhile, while officers were literally keeping her alive, they figured out both adults in the home had been using.
But wait! Theres more!
and they watched as Cameron Shane Clegg try to stash his “hobby supplies” under a mattress where a small child was sitting.
Good grief people!
When they searched the place, they found more drug paraphernalia and related items, and DCS removed the child from the home
Which is good, because I don't personally remember the chapter of my parenting book that instructed us on where to best stash our drug paraphernalia
Do you?
Round 2
The Supreme Court has now cemented broad birthright citizenship, striking down Trump’s executive order and saying that if you’re born on U.S. soil, you’re a citizen. Period.
Politically and practically, a lot of us think they failed this one.
AG Jonathan Skrmetti was one of the people trying to push back.
He joined other states arguing that lower courts stretched the Fourteenth Amendment too far, and that “subject to the jurisdiction” shouldn’t automatically cover every child born here regardless of the parents’ status.
He basically asked the Court to reconsider the idea that just crossing a border and giving birth here instantly creates a citizen with full claims on Tennessee’s systems and resources.
SCOTUS went the other way and blocked Trump’s order instead, keeping the broad version of birthright citizenship intact.
Everyone born here gets the same status, and the state has to treat them as full citizens for schools and other taxpayer-provided benefits.
From here out, any serious change can’t come from clever interpretations of “subject to the jurisdiction” or from executive orders—it would have to come from either a future Supreme Court willing to revisit this or from a very-unlikely constitutional amendment.
In the meantime, Tennessee’s leaders can keep talking tough on immigration, but they’re legally bound to treat every child born here as a Tennessean, even when Washington’s border policy makes that feel like a bait‑and‑switch on the states.
That's 2 rounds down and one to go. Let me know in the comments if you think SCOTUS got this one right or wrong.
Round 3
In Warren County, a botched coke run quickly turned into a hit‑and‑run, but it's not what you think.
White male walks into the Dollar General, uses the restroom, and strolls back out with a six‑pack of Coca‑Cola he allegedly didn’t bother to pay for.
Another customer flags Brent the manager, who steps outside and in front of the guy’s gold Jeep to try to stop him.
Instead of choosing the “pause and pay” option, he hits the gas, and clips the manager before taking off down the highway—apparently thinking a stolen six‑pack of soda pairs well with a vehicular assault charge.
You can almost hear the employee’s thought process: “There’s no way this dude has that nice of a six‑pack.”
That was your daily Tennessee news roundup.
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