Members of the Nashville council have said they want to send Justin Jones back to the Capitol. The vote will happen as state lawmakers hold their first floor sessions since the expulsion votes.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — One of the two Black Democrats who were thrown out of the Tennessee House last week appeared likely to get his seat back Monday, just days after the GOP exacted retribution against the lawmakers who protested for more gun control.
The other expelled representative, Justin Pearson, could be reappointed Wednesday at a meeting of the Shelby County Commission in his district. Special elections for the seats will take place in the coming months. Jones and Pearson have said they want to be reappointed and plan to run in the special elections.
A third Democrat targeted for expulsion, Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, also attracted national attention. Johnson, who is white, was spared expulsion by a single vote. Republican lawmakers justified splitting their votes by saying Johnson had less of a role in the protest — she didn’t speak into the megaphone, for example.
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