The move directed at Rep. Justin Jones prohibited him from speaking on and debating bills for the rest of the day.
Rep. Justin Jones speaks from the House floor during a special session of the state legislature on public safety on Monday, Aug. 28, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. | George Walker IV/AP PhotoNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Republican lawmakers voted Monday to temporarily silence a Democratic member of the so-called Tennessee Three during an already tense House floor session after determining the young Black member violated newly enacted rules designed to punish disruptive members.
The vote to silence Jones prompted loud cries and chants that drowned out proceedings for several minutes even after the House speaker ordered the gallery to be cleared out. Sexton then ruled Jones out of order, setting up a vote on whether to quiet him for the rest of Monday’s session. Many in the crowd remained in the stands, and their cries of “vote them out” and “Whose house, our house” drowned out the legislative proceedings for several minutes, enough at one point that a Republican lawmaker said he couldn’t hear what he was supposed to be voting on.
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