BREAKING: Tennessee’s Republican-held House of Representatives voted Thursday to expel the first of three Democratic lawmakers who protested gun violence in the state House last week.
Republicans, in turn, vowed to override the three members’ election by holding a vote to expel them. The move to ouster them has shocked many Americans, who questioned a legislature that had, until Thursday, expelled just two members since the Civil War, and has failed to take action against other members accused of sexual harassment or violating campaign finance laws.
Justin Jones carries his name tag after the vote to remove him from the Tennessee House of Representatives.Crowds in the House’s public gallery interrupted the scheduling of a vote on Monday to chant “fascist,” according to aThe proceedings against the so-called Tennessee Three began Thursday with a questioning of Jones, who said he represents 78,000 constituents in Nashville.
“I said you put a brown face on white supremacy,” Jones shot back, adding that he found Kumar’s demands for Tennesseans to assimilate “sad.” In his final five minutes at the podium, Jones was flanked by over a dozen other lawmakers standing in support.
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