Tennessee's House Expels 2 of 3 Democrats Over Guns Protest
Thousands of people flocked to the Capitol to support the Democrats, cheering and chanting outside the House chamber so loudly that the noise drowned out the...
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Thousands of people flocked to the Capitol to support the Democrats, cheering and chanting outside the House chamber so loudly that the noise drowned out the...
The banishment of Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson was a move the chamber has used only a handful times since the Civil War.
Rep. Justin Pearson, a young Democrat who graduated from Bowdoin College in 2017, faces an expulsion vote this evening.
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. Republican leaders deny that race was a factor, however. Expulsions are an extraordinary move that the chamber has used only extremely rarely since the Civil War. They came a week after the trio ch...