BREAKING: Justin J. Pearson has been reinstated to the Tennessee House after Republicans expelled him for participating in a gun control rally.
Expelled Rep. Justin Pearson waves to supporters, April 7, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn., the day after Pearson and another member of the Tennessee State Legislature were expelled.Less than a week after being ousted by the Tennessee House of Representatives by the Republican supermajority, District 86 representative Justin J. Pearson has just been reinstated by a unanimous vote.
Pearson’s reinstatement comes just two days after Nashville’s Metro Council unanimously voted to reinstate Rep. Justin Jones, the other representative who was expelled last week for his involvement in a gun control rally.Mickell Lowery, chairman of the Shelby County Commission, announced the special meeting Sunday evening.
Lowery shared he believed the Thursday expulsion of Pearson “was conducted in a hasty manner without consideration of other corrective action methods,” after Pearson, Jones and Rep. Gloria Johnson violated the chamber’s rules of decorum by participating in last month’s protest.“I am amongst the over 68,000 citizens who were stripped of having a representative at the State due to the unfortunate outcome of the State Assembly’s vote,” he said in the statement.
At the March 30 protest at the Capitol prompted by the Nashville Covenant School shooting three days prior, Jones and Pearson participated and were seen using a bullhorn leading to chants on the House floor, causing a brief interruption in legislative business. Johnson participated also, but was not seen using the bullhorn."This was a tragedy that happened at the Covenant School in Nashville.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners decision comes after an over one mile community march on Monday from The National Civil Rights Museum to the County Commission in support of gun violence prevention and support for the reinstatement of Pearson.& Louisville to gun violence, we won’t be silent! We’ll march from The National Civil Rights Museum to the County Commission in support of, justice, gun violence prevention and Our Representative Justin J.
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