Jones was expelled from the state House one week after taking part in a gun control protest. Fellow Democrats Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson could be next.
One Republican dissenter has voted against expelling Democratic Tennessee Representative Justin Jones one week after he was targeted by GOP lawmakers over his role in a gun control protest.
Last Thursday, the trio of lawmakers provoked the ire of Republican Speaker Cameron Sexton after breaching decorum by speaking out of turn and repeating a chant in support of gun control as a youth-led protest was taking part outside the chamber. The demonstration came in the wake of Nashville's Covenant School shooting, which left three children and three adults dead and reignited the gun control debate across the nation.
Republican Representative Charlie Baum, who also serves as an economics professor at Middle Tennessee State University, was the lone Republican to vote against the expulsion on Thursday.who were at the hearing voted in favor of expelling the Democrat.who took part in the demonstration, Representatives Gloria Johnson and Justin Pearson.
Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville gestures during a vote on his expulsion from the state legislature at the State Capitol Building on April 6, 2023, in Nashville, Tennessee. He was expelled after he and two other Democratic reps led a protest at the Tennessee State Capital building in the wake of a mass shooting where three students and three adults were killed on March 27 at the Covenant School in Nashville.
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