Tennessee Republicans protest against expulsion of Democrats with gun control

Republican-controlled legislature Tennessee Extraordinary steps expel two Democratic members of the state capitol on Thursday Protesting on gun control After last week’s conference hall Deadly Nashville School Shooting.

After hours of debate, lawmakers voted 72-25 to expel Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville and Rep. Justin Pearson, who expelled Memphis from No. 69-26 from Memphis, used a giant clock in an ode leading the floor on the House of Representatives floor on March 30, while hundreds of children and their parents filled bystanders’ gun control.

One vote expelled the third member of the state legislator, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, lost a vote. She argued that the Republicans’ resolution to expel her did not accurately describe her behavior. She didn’t interrupt her voice by yelling at the Bulldog when she stood with Pearson and Jones to support their protests.

A two-thirds majority is required to cancel MPs. Republicans currently control 75 of the 99 seats in the state Capitol.

Pearson and Jones are both 27-year-old black men who served in their first term at the State Capitol, while Johnson, 60, is a white woman in her fourth term. “It may have something to do with the color of our skin,” Johnson Say outside the room After the vote.

Call Attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Republican, leads the Republican super contribution in the room Say the actions of the three people are “At least the equivalent of, according to your opinion, an uprising in the Capitol, which could be worse.”

Although the demonstration did cause a spokesperson to temporarily freeze work at the state capitol, no protesters broke into the building, damaged any property or were arrested. Unlike DC’s 2021 uprising, they were allowed after safety screening Tennessee Reported.

Republicans argued that the three violated the chamber’s procedural rules by speaking close to the podium.

Exited lawmakers can run for a seat again and if re-election they will not be expelled for the same crime.

Protesters gathered again when lawmakers voted to pass the deportation on Thursday in and external The Capitol supports the so-called Tennessee Three. Legislators can hear chants outside the chamber when they meet, but Democrats ask supporters of public galleries to keep quiet so they can witness the events. But once Pearson was given a final vote, the people in the gallery burst into an ode to “Shame!”.

Before the vote, every target Democrat has the opportunity to speak to the conference hall. Jones told his colleagues in his speech that he had taken extraordinary actions to break etiquette in order to stand up for his constituents. He condemned the vote against him because “the mob of private life is to not illegitimate me rather than our democratic process.”

“The world is watching Tennessee because what’s going on here today is a democratic farce,” Jones said.

In his speech, Pearson said: “The Justice Movement will never die because the righteous heart will never be killed, because it lives, it defeats all of us alone.”

Thursday’s deportation attracted national attention, including the president Joe Biden. “Deporting lawmakers who participated in peaceful protests is shocking, undemocratic and unprecedented,” he Say on Twitter.