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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Tennessee House Expels Two Disruptive Lawmakers

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

After seizing the floor with a bullhorn to demand gun control, Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson are booted from office, although the Nashville Metro Council has already reappointed Jones. Was their removal too strong a punishment, and what does President Biden mean when he calls it "undemocratic"? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.7

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:25.6

The Tennessee legislature expels two lawmakers who disrupted its proceedings, which Democrats

0:31.6

nationally are casting as another Republican attack on democracy.

0:36.5

Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:39.7

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member

0:45.2

Manet Uquay-Berua.

0:46.8

According to a Reuters report last week, only two Tennessee state representatives had been

0:52.6

expelled by the chamber since the Civil War era, one in 1980 for soliciting a bribe and

0:58.8

another in 2016 after being accused of sexual misconduct.

1:03.1

But now that number has risen to four after two expulsions last week of representatives

1:09.2

Justin Jones and Justin Pearson for disrupting the chamber a couple of weeks ago during protests

1:17.4

calling for gun control after the recent horrible mass shooting at a elementary school in

1:23.6

Nashville.

1:24.6

Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson took a bullhorn to the floor of the house

1:29.7

and seized control of the chamber.

1:32.1

It was quickly gabbled into recess and they stood there demanding action, chanting with

1:37.6

the crowd in the gallery, gun control now, no action, no peace.

1:42.2

Let's listen to a piece of their protest.

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