Adding insult to injury in Tennessee, Republicans expelled Jones and Pearson, who are Black. The expulsion vote for Johnson, who is white, fell short. Subtle, it was not. (via MaddowBlog)
In the wake of the deadly mass shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville last week, Tennessee’s Republican-dominated state legislature had a wide variety of options. The GOP majority could’ve taken steps to protect the public by considering a new red-flag law, for example. Republican lawmakers also had the option of expanding background checks or advancing an assault-weapons ban.
The series of events began with last week’s school shooting, which generated large demonstrations at the state Capitol, with Tennesseans pleading with Republicans to take steps to protect the public from gun violence. Having broken the decorum rules of the institution, the Democratic lawmakers were soon after stripped of their committee assignments. But for members of the Republican majority — some of whom equated a peaceful protest with the Jan. 6 attack, despite the fact that no one broke into the state capitol, no one was harmed, and there was no property damage in Nashville — that level of retaliation was deemed insufficient.
Adding insult to injury, Republicans expelled Jones and Pearson, who are Black. The expulsion vote for Johnson, however, who is white, fell a vote short.explained, “Six lawmakers were expelled from the Tennessee House in 1866, immediately after the Civil War, for seeking to prevent the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, which granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people. Since then, the House of Representatives in Tennessee has voted only twice to oust a lawmaker.
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