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from just about anywhere. expand your team with a fiber freelancer. cnn presents a max original heavens gate tomorrow at 10 on cnn. live in the cnn newsroom. im jim acosta in washington. the 19 sixties had the chicago eight today. nashville has the tennessee three. the state lawmakers, all democrats. targeted by republicans for leading a loud but peaceful protest on the house floor in that legislature. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left six peo...

dueling decisions, creating a flash point in the fight for abortion rights in texas. a federal judges halting the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug medford pretzels own one of the main medications used to provide abortions. but less than an hour later, conflicting court ruling out of washington state judge their order the federal government to protect access to the drug and 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia. the two decisions are the most signifi...

>> now that the shelby county commission done their job. im so glad we get to get back to doing our job and what is our job? to elevate the voices of the six kids -- the six people in nashville. three children who were just 9 years old. >> now both lawmakers expelled by republicans in the tennessee legislature have been reinstated, proving just how pointless that exercise was. state representative justin j. pearson joins me in just a moment and the two pillars of the republican party...

The Shelby County Board of Commissioners will consider reappointing district 86 representative Justin Pearson to the Tennessee House while at a special meeting.

A blatant attack on democracy in tennessee today the vote to expel representative jones is political retaliation and a reflection of a severe moral crisis in our state and national governments. so what happens next? well, according to the tennessee constitution, a special election must happen and that is because we are over a year out to the next general election happening in november of 2024. in that gap, the county leaders legislators for that open vacant positions. they have the ability to el...

But then heads on over to the state capital back to his normal seat. similarly over in memphis , mc michael lowry, the chairman of the shelby county board of commissioners, says that they will not address pearsons situation before wednesday. theyre normally scheduled meeting, then they will call for a quorum to schedule a special meeting and tennessee. were certainly seeing a political tensions rising hendro of remus , the chairman of the tennessee democratic party. he says the democratic contro...