Freshly expelled Tennessee politician Justin Jones appears to have enough votes in the Nashville Metropolitan Council to send him back to the state legislature.
Jones, along with fellow Democrat Justin Pearson, was removed from his elected position Thursday in a nearly unprecedented vote in the Republican-dominated Tennessee House of Representatives.
Along with a third lawmaker — a white woman who was not expelled — the Black legislators participated in a highly spirited House-floor protest over gun control last week that “knowingly and intentionally (brought) disorder and dishonor to the House of Representatives,” according to House Speaker Cameron Sexton.
