Tennessee Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones have advanced past an election hurdle after the two young Black lawmakers were expelled earlier this year for their gun control protest on the House floor, then reinstated by local officials days afterward.
seat, which also is heavily Democratic. He faces Republican Laura Nelson in the Aug. 3 general election.The pair’s protest took place on March 30, three days after a shooting at The Covenant School, a Christian school in
, killed three 9-year-olds and three adults. Republican lawmakers booted the lawmakers from office on April 6 for violating decorum rules during the protest, while sparing Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson from expulsion by one vote for her role in the demonstration.
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