The Latest Breaking News from Justin Pearson

The removal of two Black lawmakers from the Tennessee legislature last week, for disrupting proceedings in the state House of Representatives during protests of inaction on gun violence, dispensed with racial symbolism and dog whistles. It was a raw racial drama, an overt and aggressive complement to the racial realities…

The Nashville city council voted unanimously to send Justin Jones back to the Legislature after he was ousted with a colleague last week. He immediately took the oath of office.

The Metro Nashville Council has voted unanimously to reappoint Justin Jones, 27, to his seat in the state legislature.

Nashville’s metro council voted Monday to reinstate Tennessee state lawmaker Justin Jones, who was expelled from his elected position last week by a Republican supermajority.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, who was expelled from the state House last week alongside former Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis, was reinstated to his seat Monday on an interim basis.

Republican majority had ousted Jones and fellow house member Justin Pearson over protests they led demanding gun control

Jones was reinstated, and the meeting was over in a matter of minutes.

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Former Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, and Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, want to return to the House. Upcoming meetings could give local officials the chance to send them back.

Nashville officials are poised to vote to reinstate one of the two Black Democratic lawmakers expelled by Republican colleagues over their gun control protest on the House floor after a deadly school shooting