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The Davidson County Election Commission has been faced in recent months with a thorny legal problem: whether they’re allowed to put a glorified Facebook post on the ballot before all Nashville voters. Initially, their legal counsel — including Metro lawyers, former Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Bill Koch and Bradley lawyer Junaid Odubeko — said they couldn’t, or else a court would strike it down. The commission’s Republican majority disagreed, and they hired new legal counsel — James Blumstein of Vanderbilt and Austin McMullen of Bradley. That duo said it was fine, but as their initial advisers predicted, multiple courts promptly shut the endeavor down. It remains under appeal.

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