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Second Tennessee lawmaker to return to chamber after explusion

Justin Pearson is seen before a vote by the Shelby County Board of Commissioners to restore him to his legislative seat [Cheney Orr/Reuters]

A second Democratic legislator has been restored to his seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives after he was controversially expelled from the Republican-controlled chamber for taking part in a gun control protest.

Representative Justin Pearson faced expulsion along with Representatives Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson for taking part in the protest on the House floor in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead.

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