Tennessee’s Republican-led state legislature on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers who led gun control protests at the state capitol in the wake of a school shooting. | AFP
Lawmakers voted along mostly party lines to expel Justin Jones and Justin Pearson . A vote to expel the third member of the group, Gloria Johnson, failed . Expulsion requires a two-thirds majority of the 99-member House.
Pearson and Jones had first walked up to the House podium during the floor session and used a bullhorn to lead gun reform chants, and were later joined by Johnson, The Tennessean reported. “Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting,” Biden wrote on Twitter. “And what are GOP officials focused on? Punishing lawmakers who joined thousands of peaceful protesters calling for action. It’s shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent.”
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