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Freshly expelled Tennessee politician Justin Jones appears to have enough votes in the Nashville Metropolitan Council to send him back to the state legislature.

In an extraordinary act of political retaliation, Tennessee Republicans on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers from the state Legislature for their role in a protest calling for more gun control in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting in Nashville. A third Democrat was narrowly spared by a one-vote margin.

Two of the lawmakers were booted from office Thursday.

GOP-controlled state house voted to expel Black lawmakers Justin Jones and Justin Pearson while sparing Gloria Johnson

The GOP is an authoritarian, extremist political party that is out of the mainstream of American life

Their expulsion is a petty act of revenge from Republicans who refuse to accept the will of the voters

Majority party lawmakers punishing minority party members with different positions is becoming increasingly common, experts warn.

Jones, one of two Black Democrats expelled from the state House, tells NPR he's keeping his options open and would "most definitely" demand his seat back if local officials reappointed him to it.

Washington (AFP) - Tennessee's Republican-led state legislature on Thursday expelled two Democratic lawmakers who led gun control protests at the state capitol in the wake of a school shooting.