Tennessee Representative Reinstated After Expulsion Over Gun Control Protest

Their referral was widely criticized by leaders across the country, notably President Joe Biden, who tweeted: “The expulsion of legislators who have engaged in peaceful demonstrations is shocking, undemocratic and unprecedented”. Evols have already been used to eliminate the members accused of serious offenses, such as soliciting a bridge pot or allegedly committing a sexual fault.

Although the president of the Cameron Sexton chamber, who directs the supermajority of the GOP, tried to compare the actions of the legislators to those of the rioters of January 6 at the American Capitol, no demonstrator burst into the building, damaged of goods or orders. Unlike the 2021 insurgency in Washington, DC, the demonstrators were authorized in the building after having been screening for security, Tennessean reported.

Before the renewal of Jones, Doug Kufner, spokesperson for Sexton, said in a statement provided to Buzzfeed News than the one appointed to vacant posts by the Governments of the county of Nashville and Shelby “will be seated as representatives that the Constitution requires”.