Tennessee GOP lawmakers expel two Democrats, spare one over gun control protest

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The two expelled Democrats, both Black men, were two of the youngest members of the House. The other Democrat not expelled, a white woman, believes race played a role in their dismissal.

The majority-Republican Tennessee House voted to expel two Democrats and spared a third Thursday afternoon after the trio of lawmakers led a protest on the House floor last week to demand action on gun control in the wake of the latest deadly school shooting in Nashville last Monday that claimed the lives of six people, including three children.

State representatives Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis, both Black and two of the youngest members of the Legislature, were voted out of the House with vote tallies of 72-25 and 69-26 respectively, while Rep. Gloria Johnson of Knoxville, a white woman, was spared by one vote with a vote tally of 65-30.

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Ahead of the expulsion votes, Johnson believed the move would have sweeping ramifications across the rest of the country.

“This is going to have a chilling effect across the country, especially in red states,” she said. “It’s going to scare people from talking about real issues. … [Republicans] thought they would take this opportunity to take these respected voices in the state away and didn’t take a second to think about what they were doing.”