Posted on 04/06/2023 5:32:39 PM PDT by Morgana
The Tennessee House of Representatives has voted to expel two young black Democrat members of the state legislature, a week after they joined a protest against gun laws, bringing a bullhorn onto the House floor amid a noisy demonstration.
Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, both 27, were joined in their protest on March 31 by Gloria Johnson, 60, a veteran member of the legislature, who is white.
Jones and Pearson were voted out of the House on Thursday: Johnson was not.
Asked why she avoided expulsion, Johnson - the only white person among the three - said it 'might have to do with the color of my skin.'
Until Thursday, only two people had been expelled from the Tennessee state legislature since the Civil War.
Joe Biden called the vote 'shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent'.
He tweeted: '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.'
Jones said after the vote that it showed Tennessee was 'on a path toward authoritarianism', and his lawyers were analyzing whether the expulsion vote was legal.
'This should sound the alarm across the nation, that we are entering some very dangerous territory,' he said.
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Yep.
Stupid
Not to totally halt any legal process or fail to do his damn job. Many people are fired from work for far less.
“Not to totally halt any legal process or fail to do his damn job. Many people are fired from work for far less.”
They expelled 2 black men and didn’t expel the white woman.
The right to peacefully protest id protected.
Like I said in another post, the blowback is going to be spectacular.
Did the old white school teacher use the bullhorn?
I didn’t see her haranguing the mob
If she joined the protest at all, she should have been expelled.
Maybe they just didn’t get around to expelling her yet.
Make it racial. Go back to your rat party.
Make it racial. Go back to your rat party.
Um,no. Vote happened already.
Failed by one vote.
They were one vote short of expelling her, too.
I don't think they are that stupid, they're deceitful...
Two out of three ain’t bad!
She avoided expulsion by one vote. It wasn’t because she was white.
Tell that to the media.
“Joe Biden called the vote ‘shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent’. “
Wait, I thought voting was the democratic way. And there is precedence. It’s been done before.
I read the article, perhaps too quickly, and didn’t see the votes. How many voted one way on the other two and against tossing her?
Any insidght WD?
“Make it racial. Go back to your rat party.”
The GOP legislators made it racial when they expelled the 2 black men and not the white woman.
Sorry if you find that inconvenient.
None of them should have been expelled. IMHO
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