President Joe Biden on Monday welcomed the “Tennessee Three” – the trio of state lawmakers who were targeted by GOP leadership after leading gun control protests in the state capital – to the White House, and hailed them for ”standing up for our kids” during a meeting in the Oval Office.
Mr Biden also condemned state Republicans in Tennessee while speaking with state legislators Justin Pearson, Justin Jones, and Gloria Johnson. Mr Pearson and Mr Jones – who are both Black men – were briefly expelled from their legislative seats by the GOP supermajority that controls the Tennessee House of Representatives, while Ms Johnson, a white woman, was spared by one vote.
