BREAKING: Nashville council votes to reinstate Justin Jones to the state Legislature after he was removed last week by Republicans for protesting gun violence on the House floor.
killed six people, including three 9-year-old children. The three broke House rules and used a bullhorn when they were not recognized to speak. Tennessee House leaders cast the protest as an"insurrection" and voted last Thursday to expel Jones and Pearson from the Legislature. Johnson, who is white, survived her vote, which she suggested had to do with her race.to send Jones back to the Legislature.
Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers of Monday's rally and a co-founder of Until Freedom, an activist group focused on criminal justice issues, said she hoped the council would reinstate Jones and"restore democracy in Tennessee." “I believe the expulsion of State Representative Justin Pearson was conducted in a hasty manner without consideration of other corrective action methods,” Lowery said in a statement. “I also believe that the ramifications for our great state are still yet to be seen.”
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