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In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin.
Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House has expelled two of three Democratic members for their roles in a demonstration in favor of gun control following the Nashville school shooting. The chamber's split votes to oust Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones on Thursday while narrowly sparing Rep. Gloria Johnson also have drawn accusations of racism. Pearson and Jones are Black, while Johnson is white. Expulsions are an extraordinary move that the chamber has used only a handful times since the Civil War. They came a week after the trio chanted back and forth from the chamber floor with gun contr...
A vote to oust St. Reps. Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and Justin Jones is an extraordinary move the chamber has used only a few times since the Civil War.
The Tennessee Republican-led state House voted on Thursday to expel two Democratic lawmakers who protested on the House floor for stronger gun control laws.