For Republicans, protests are more outrageous than school killings.
Tennessee representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson at the Tennessee state house, where they were expelled from the House of Representatives on Thursday.” to the House of Representatives during a protest last week. The two Democrats, Justin Jones of Nashville and Justin Pearson of Memphis, joined throngs of ralliers who had converged on the Capitol after the slaying of six people in a Nashville school shooting on March 27.
As the proceedings unfolded, Pearson laid into his Republican colleagues for what he saw as their hypocrisy. “You, who celebrate July 4, 1776, pop fireworks and eat hot dogs, you say to protest is wrong, because you spoke out of turn” on behalf of “children who won’t ever be able to speak again,” he said in a speech that wenton Twitter. He and Jones are probably not gone for good.
The expulsions leave Tennessee Democrats at a two-man deficit, but their disadvantage is mostly redundant: The assembly’s GOP supermajority doesn’t need Democrats to pass its agenda. Its recent successes include a bill that bans gender-affirming care for trans minors and another that defines “” as immutable and determined at birth, which could exempt some LGBTQ people from anti-discrimination protections.
In a state where race is often a proxy for partisan affiliation, this development has especially dire implications for Black officials. When asked why Jones and Pearson were expelled for protesting while she was not, Johnson, who is white,
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