This article by Derek Muller is published by Election Law Blog. Here is an excerpt:

I blogged last month about the Tennessee Senate committee’s decision to advance a bill adding a multi-year residency requirement to congressional candidates. The bill’s gone through some machinations since then in the two houses about what the residency requirement looks like, but similar (not identical) bills have passed both chambers with significant bipartisan support–that is, nearly unanimous support.

One proponent of the legislation, I noted in my original blog post, pressed for overturning U.S. Term Limits v. Thornton, the Supreme Court’s 1995 decision holding that the qualifications enumerated in the Constitution are exclusive and that states lack any power under the Constitution to add qualifications. The legislator cited Justice Thomas’s dissenting opinions, joined by Justice Scalia (among others), as a basis for pressing forward with the new law.

A recent interview with another legislator has the same line:

Read the full article here.