Remember friends Trump is being investigating for the whole JAN 6th so called capitol insurrection in DC? Well these 3 congress people need to be removed from the position and impeached out. Why aren't people facing charges and a bigger deal being made here? These people brought people who crashed and stopped the actual process of government.
The people who entered the capitol on JAN 6th are being treated like evil people for simply wanting to making America Great and Making it so we continue to see ourselves as "First" and these people here are just staging this insurrection in Tennessee state legislation event.
This now needs to be treated like how they did to the people on JAN 6th or release, pardon, and drop the 1/6 scam. The protest unfolded days after the shooting at the Covenant School, a private Christian school where six people were killed, including three children.
“We are losing our democracy. This is not normal. This is not OK,” Pearson told reporters as he waited to learn whether he would be banished. The three “broke a House rule because we’re fighting for kids who are dying from gun violence and people in our communities who want to see an end to the proliferation of weaponry in our communities.”
Johnson, a retired teacher, said her concern about school shootings is personal, recalling a day in 2008 when students came running toward her out of a cafeteria because a student had just been fatally shot there.
“The trauma on those faces, you will never, ever forget. I don’t want to forget it,” she said. Thousands flocked to the Tennessee Capitol on Thursday to support the three Democratic lawmakers, cheering and chanting outside the House chamber so loudly that they drowned out proceedings.
The three Democrats held hands as they walked onto the House floor, and Pearson raised his fist to the crowd during the Pledge of Allegiance. Offered a chance to defend himself before the vote, Jones said the GOP responded to the shooting with a different kind of attack.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy,” he said. If expelled, Jones vowed that he would continue pressing for action on guns. “I’ll be out there with the people every week, demanding that you act,” he said. Republican Rep. Gino Bulso said the three Democratic representatives “effectively conducted a mutiny.”
The gentleman shows no remorse,” Bulso said, referring to Jones. “He does not even recognize that what he did was wrong. So not to expel him would simply invite him and his colleagues to engage in mutiny on the House floor.”
The two expelled lawmakers may not be gone for long. County commissions in their districts get to pick replacements to serve until a special election can be scheduled.
The expelled lawmakers would be eligible for appointment back to their seats. They would also be eligible to run in the special election. And under the Tennessee Constitution, lawmakers cannot be expelled for the same offense twice. Republican Rep. Sabi Kumar advised Jones, who is Black, to be more collegial and less focused on race.
“You have a lot to offer, but offer it in a vein where people are accepting of your ideas,” Kumar said.
Jones said he did not intend to assimilate in order to be accepted. “I’m not here to make friends. I’m here to make a change for my community,” he replied.
Outrage over the expulsions underscored not only the ability of the Republican supermajority to silence opponents, but also its increasing willingness to do so.
In Washington, President Biden blasted the GOP’s priorities. “Three kids and three officials gunned down in yet another mass shooting. And what are GOP officials focused on? Punishing lawmakers who joined thousands of peaceful protesters calling for action. It’s shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent,” Biden tweeted.
Many of the protesters traveled from Memphis and Knoxville, areas that Pearson and Johnson represent, and stood in a line that wrapped around the Capitol to get inside.
Protesters outside the chamber held up signs that said, “School zones shouldn’t be war zones,” “Muskets didn’t fire 950 rounds per minute” with a photo of George Washington, and “You can silence a gun ... but not the voice of the people.“
Before the expulsion vote, House members debated more than 20 bills, including a school safety proposal requiring public and private schools to submit their building safety plans to the state. The bill did not address gun control, sparking criticism from some Democratic members that lawmakers were addressing only a symptom and not the cause of school shootings.
In 2019, lawmakers faced pressure to expel then-Rep. David Byrd, a Republican, after he faced accusations of sexual misconduct from when he was a high school basketball coach three decades earlier. Republicans declined to take any action, pointing out that he was reelected as the allegations surfaced. Byrd retired last year.
Last year, the state Senate expelled Democrat Katrina Robinson after she was convicted of using about $3,400 in federal grant money on wedding expenses instead of on nursing school. Before that case, state lawmakers last ousted a House member in 2016 when the chamber voted 70 to 2 to remove Republican Rep.
Jeremy Durham after an attorney general’s investigation detailed allegations of improper sexual contact with at least 22 women during his four years in office.
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