{"id":1914043,"date":"2023-04-13T04:11:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-expelled-tennessee-dem-reinstated-to-state-house\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T04:12:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T08:12:39","slug":"second-expelled-tennessee-dem-reinstated-to-state-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-expelled-tennessee-dem-reinstated-to-state-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Expelled Tennessee Dem Reinstated To State House"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fsecond-expelled-tennessee-dem-reinstated-to-state-house%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=1914043&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<p>A Memphis commission has unanimously reappointed Justin Pearson, a Democrat from Tennessee, who was recently expelled from the state House for violating decorum rules when he joined a group of gun-control protesters in storming the state capitol. Pearson had been ejected from his position in a 69-26 vote. He had participated in the protest, demanding gun restrictions in response to the mass shooting that had occurred at the Covenant School in Nashville. His supporters, numbering in the hundreds, gathered in Memphis as the city officials voted 7-0 to return Pearson to his former position. \u201cThe message for all the people in Nashville who decided to expel us: You can\u2019t expel hope. You can\u2019t expel justice,\u201d Pearson said at the meeting according to the Associated Press. After his reinstatement, Pearson vowed that this event was just the beginning and that &#8220;They\u2019ve awakened a sleeping giant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing, Pearson was accused of using a fake Southern preacher voice, and a video was spread online displaying his shift from moderate politics during his college days to the more passionate, preacher-style delivery he used in the aftermath of his ejection from the statehouse.<\/p>\n<p>Justin Jones, another Democrat, who had sneaked a bullhorn into the chamber and led chants while supporters sat in the balcony, was also expulsed but reinstated by the Nashville Metropolitan Council on Monday. During the expulsion vote, Democratic lawmakers on the floor and protesters were emotional, screaming that the Republicans were transforming Tennessee into a &#8220;fascist state.&#8221; Republicans, however, remained committed to the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Together with Fellow Democrat Gloria Johnson, who was nearly suspended, the two lawmakers were joined by Vice President Kamala Harris to call on Tennessee to enact more gun control. While she showed solidarity with the expelled Democrats, the VP did not meet with any of the families of the Covenant School shootings while visiting Fisk University in Nashville.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Tennessee Democrat \u2014 who was ousted for his role in the storming of the state capitol earlier this month \u2014 was unanimously reappointed by a Memphis commission Wednesday. Justin Pearson was expelled last week in a vote of 69-26 for breaking decorum rules after he joined fellow Democrats and gun-control protesters who stormed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1914044,"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":[541],"tags":[6244,23693,3653,11548,6651],"class_list":["post-1914043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-dem","tag-expelled","tag-house","tag-reinstated","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\/1914043","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\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}