Tennessee Democrats facing expulsion defend their gun control protest, accuse GOP of 'scare' tactics

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Rep. Justin Pearson, who faces expulsion from the House for joining protestors in speaking up for gun reform, claims that Republicans in the state House are “silently complicit to gun companies,” which is leading to an “erosion of democracy.”

“Evidently these are not expulsion-worthy displays of unethical behavior or lack of decorum,” Carrie Russell, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University told Yahoo News in an email, while duly acknowledging that a move like this “signals that dissent and protesting against the stated agenda, regardless of the context, will procedurally engender the most extreme measures – rendering their seats vacant and removing the ability of the voters in the states’ most diverse districts to...

Because of these serious infractions in the past leading to expulsion, political experts say a move to remove legislators for protesting out of turn would set a troubling precedent. Jana Morgan, a professor of political science at the University of Tennessee and co-author of the booksees two possible results from an expulsion that could result in contrasting outcomes.

"They voluntarily disqualified themselves from further service," Bulso said. "Rather than comply with their oath to the Constitution and comply with the rules, they decided to go outside of the House and effectively shut it down. And so what we're simply doing is recognizing that they've voluntarily chosen to put themselves outside the House and formally expel them."

Protesters listen during a house session from the gallery at the Tennessee State Capitol during a protest to demand action for gun reform laws in the state on April 3, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

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Yeah!Only criminals and the government should own guns

Yahoo The money made it to the Republican house in Tennessee from the NRA.

Tennessee’s GOP-dominated House expelled Rep. Justin Jones, the first of three Democratic members who were at risk of being thrown out of the Legislature for their role in a demonstration calling for gun control after the Nashville school shooting.

Take away our guns over our dead bodies? See now how if you want to kill you use a hatchet on children, you stab to death a well know business man in San Francisco. you stab 4 students in Idaho? You bomb a group as in OKLA, Boston, in England? Go figure.

This leftis insurgent he should be arrested immediately !

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