The House of Representatives of the state of Tennessee has now readmitted the two Democratic congressmen expelled last week after participating in a protest in favor of greater gun control following the Nashville school shooting that killed six people, three of them children.
The Shelby County Commission has voted Wednesday to return his seat to Justin Pearson, representative for Memphis, following the steps taken in the previous in favor of the representative for Nashville Justin Jones, the other congressman expelled, according to the portal The Hill.
Thus, the Tennessee Lower House has already readmitted the two expelled members, who denounced that they had been stripped of their seats because they were black, since Gloria Johnson, a white Democratic representative who also participated in the protests, was not expelled.
Pearson and Jones have warned in recent days that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican Cameron Sexton, was even leading a sort of »white supremacist system». Johnson, for her part, admitted that perhaps she had not been ousted from her seat because she was »a 60-year-old white woman.»
Pearson, Jones and Johnson are popularly known as »The Tennessee Three» and have become in recent days a symbol for Democrats in the state and the country, especially in these weeks when the discussion on gun control is so focused on the actions of each party.
Their controversial expulsion even led U.S. President Joe Biden to invite them to the White House after denouncing the decision as »shocking, undemocratic and unprecedented.» Vice President Kamala Harris also stressed that »a democracy says you don’t have to silence people, you don’t have to turn off their microphones when they are talking about the importance of life and liberty».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
