The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted to expel Justin Jones a week after he joined two other Democrats in a protest on the House floor as demonstrators at the state's Capitol called for gun reform following a mass shooting at a Nashville school
The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted to expel Rep. Justin Jones a week after he joined two other Democrats in a protest on the House floor as demonstrators at the Capitol called for gun reform following a mass shooting at a Nashville school. The vote was 72-25. Expulsion from the Tennessee House requires a two-thirds majority. Two other lawmakers, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson, also face possible votes on their removal from office Thursday.
We will get through this together, and it will require talking about all solutions,” Sexton said. During the discussion Thursday, Democratic Rep. Joe Towns called the move to expel the “nuclear option.” “You never use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat,” Towns said. “We should not go to the extreme of expelling our members for fighting for what many of the citizens want to happen, whether you agree with it or not.
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