{"id":1909959,"date":"2023-04-04T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-lawmakers-face-expulsion-after-joining-pro-gun-control-protest-at-state-capitol\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T22:48:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T02:48:29","slug":"tennessee-lawmakers-face-expulsion-after-joining-pro-gun-control-protest-at-state-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-lawmakers-face-expulsion-after-joining-pro-gun-control-protest-at-state-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Lawmakers Face Expulsion After Joining Pro-Gun Control Protest at State Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennessee-lawmakers-face-expulsion-after-joining-pro-gun-control-protest-at-state-capitol%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1909959&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Three Democratic lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives are facing possible removal from the legislature after participating in pro-gun control protests at the state capitol. Reps. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), Justin J. Pearson (D-Memphis), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) took part in demonstrations on March 30, calling for tighter gun laws in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Their involvement in the protests drew sharp criticism from their Republican counterparts. According to the Nashville Tennessean, the lawmakers cheered on the crowd of demonstrators from the House floor with a bullhorn, flouting rules that mandate speaking without recognition.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans condemned the actions of the lawmakers, with House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R-Crossville) calling for a 30-minute recess during the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the three lawmakers have been stripped of their committee assignments and their ID badges have been revoked by Republicans, according to Newsweek.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmakers may now face expulsion from the House. A resolution, filed by Rep. Bud Hulsey (R-Sullivan) and other lawmakers, seeks to remove the trio from their seats, citing a breach of chamber rules and disorderly behavior that brought \u201cdisorder and dishonor\u201d to the House.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans voted on Monday to expedite the process of expelling the members, with a vote expected on Thursday. The lawmakers may have an opportunity to defend their actions during the Senate session.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson responded to the resolution on Twitter, stating that the lawmakers were &#8220;fighting to protect children from gun violence&#8221; and would not be silenced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three\u00a0Democratic lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives who took part in pro-gun control protests in the state capitol have reportedly been stripped of their committee assignments and now face being removed from the legislature. Reps. Justin Jones (D-Nashville), Justin J. Pearson (D-Memphis), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville)\u00a0participated in demonstrations for tighter gun control laws in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":1909960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4172,4154,23554,13831,3673,18736,4542,6651],"class_list":["post-1909959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-capitol","tag-control","tag-expulsion","tag-joining","tag-lawmakers","tag-pro-gun","tag-protest","tag-tennessee"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1909959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1909960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}