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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 elect an interim successor. now, according to hendra remiss, the chairman of the tennessee democratic ...

County officials in Tennessee say they want to send the lawmakers who were expelled from their positions right ...

Pearson used a bullhorn and johnson did not. the men, freshmen legislators and black johnson, a white woman in her third term, the super majority of 75. republicans in the tennessee legislature initiated expulsion for all three on the grounds that they had broken the rules of decorum. those votes came on thursday, 10 days after the shooter emptied 152 rounds into the covenant school. 66 votes were required to expel the first vote. it pertained to representative jones, and the vote was 72 25 for expulsion. the second vote pertained to johnson, only 65 voted to expel her one vote shy then repres...

Did? >> because, you know, i've bee in this body for a little while, longer than these youn gentlemen, even though representative jones and representative pearson hav been at the capitol advocating for things and they've seen what it's like you know, the reality, i wasn't just a few weeks ago was sitting in the committee a republicans have voted to brin back the firing squad, and bring back the electric chair. and one of the members said, i really like this bill, and i think we should bring back hanging by a tree -- >> let me stop right there because i don't think a lot of people got that. one...

Vacancies in the statehouse can be filled on an interim basis by the county's legislative body. The Shelby County Commission has a nine-member Democratic supermajority.