Justin Pearson. Pearson, Jones and a third lawmaker, Gloria Johnson, participated. Justin Pearson, who days before was expelled by the GOP supermajority for joining protesters ― many of them children ― who chanted in the House chamber in support of gun control following a school shooting that left three kids and three adults dead last month.
Justin Pearson speaks on the day it is scheduled to vote to expel three Democratic members for their roles in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week, in Nashville, Tenn., on. "Justin Pearson wasn't white — that's probably how he got into Bowdoin in the first place — but he did a fantastic impression of it. Justin Pearson celebrates with supporters after being reinstated to the Tennessee House of Representatives by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday. Justin Jones has been reappointed to the Tennessee legislature after Republicans expelled him and Justin Pearson, two Black Democrats, after they protested GOP inaction following a Nashville.
County officials voted on Wednesday to return Justin J.
Justin Jones, who represents Nashville and was expelled along with Pearson, was reappointed Monday by that city's Metro Council.
Pearson was expelled Thursday along with fellow Democrat Justin Jones after they interrupted a floor session and used a bullhorn to lead chants for gun control. The second of two Black Democrats who were kicked out of the Republican-led house of representatives in the Tennessee legislature followed his colleague back to work at. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, survived an expulsion effort by a single vote.