Scope: State (Tennessee)
Branch: Legislative
Severity: Green
Date occurred: March 16, 2026
Tennessee enacted SB 367, which authorizes statewide political parties to select nominees by any method permitted under party rules when a vacancy for judge, district attorney general, or public defender occurs later than 180 days before the qualifying deadline. The measure amends TCA Title 2 and Title 55, Chapter 50, and was signed into law as Public Chapter 534.
Constitutional basis: Legislature exercising its settled authority to prescribe election and nomination procedures, deferring candidate selection to party rules in a routine, well-established manner.