Nashville sends Justin Jones back to state House days after GOP lawmakers ousted him

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🗓️ 11 April 2023

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The Nashville Metropolitan Council voted to reappoint Democratic Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones back into his House district seat just days after the GOP-dominated House voted to expel him. Jones, along with Democratic State Reps. Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson led a gun reform protest on the state House floor after a shooter killed six people, including three children, at the Covenant School in Nashville. Johnson survived the Republicans’ efforts by just one vote but Pearson was ousted. He joins AC360 to discuss his colleague being reinstated and if he expects to be sworn back in.

Plus, four people were killed and at least nine were injured after a shooter entered a bank in Louisville, Kentucky. CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez gives AC360 an update on the ongoing investigation.

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0:00.0	The Tennessee two is down to one.
0:04.3	John Berman here in Ferranderson.
0:06.4	Like today, officials in Nashville voted to reinstate Justin Jones, one of the two lawmakers
0:11.3	expelled from the state house last week.
0:13.7	The second, Justin J. Pearson of Memphis joins us shortly.
0:17.4	They and a third lawmaker who was not sanctioned took part in a protest against gun violence
0:21.9	in the wake of the Covenant School mass murder just a few miles from the state house.
0:26.8	Jones and Pearson's expulsion for violating decor, I'm essentially talking out of turn,
0:31.5	sparked local protest and a national outcry.
0:34.6	Now in a horrible turn of events, people in neighboring Kentucky are living through a mass
0:39.7	shooting of their own and we will have a live report in Louisville just ahead.
0:44.1	First though, CNN's Ryan Young in Nashville for us tonight and Ryan, you spoke to representative
0:48.9	Jones after he was reappointed, so what did he tell you?
0:53.9	John, this was amazing to see.
0:55.6	We saw it all play out right there in front of us, not only from City Council and then
1:00.1	the march down the street here to the state capital, but all these thousands of people showed
1:04.7	up to be here for rally to walk up the stairs here to the state capital.
1:08.7	And this all played out right for us right there at the state capital.
1:12.0	That's where he was sworn in on those steps.
1:14.9	People were cheering.
1:15.9	They were yelling.
1:16.9	They said they wanted their voices to be heard.
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