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The Supreme Court's Fingerprints on the Georgia Legislature's Expulsion of Two State Representatives
There are precedents for this, right? So the Georgia legislature did not expel, but actually initially refused to seat then Georgia representative elect Julian Bond. And in that case, Bond versus Floyd, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that he had a First Amendment right to take his seat. In an event, as Melissa pointed out on Twitter, the court is in the background of this story in multiple ways.