The Nashville Metro Council on Monday unanimously voted in favor of reinstating ousted Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones back into office.
In a 36-0 vote, Jones was elected the interim successor for the vacancy created in Tennessee’s 52 District by his removal from the state’s General Assembly last week.
“This afternoon’s vote is unprecedented but so was the action taken to expel members of the legislature,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper said in the Metro Council chamber before the vote. “Voters in District 52 elected Justin Jones to be their voice in the statehouse, and that voice was taken away this past week. So let’s give them their voice back,” said Cooper, calling for the council to vote unanimously in favor of reinstating Jones.
Jones, 27, was one of the two black Democratic lawmakers expelled by the Republican-controlled Tennessee General Assembly after a gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting. State Rep. Gloria Johnson, 60, survived her expulsion vote last week, but Jones and former state Rep. Justin Pearson, 29, were booted from the body over the protest, which Republicans say violated decorum rules. The Nashville Metro Council voted to reinstate ousted Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones.Jones and Pearson have said they want to be reappointed and plan to run in a special election.
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