in Tennessee, where the Metropolitan Council of Nashville voted unanimously Monday to reinstate Democratic state Representative Justin Jones, just days after Republicans voted to expel him from the Tennessee House of Representatives for joining peaceful protests against gun violence after a massacre at a Christian school.
I’ll end by saying this. I’ll end by saying this. When they expelled us, they had no idea that this was going to happen. They just thought that they would go about as they do and as they always do, that they would abuse their power, and there would be no resistance, that they would do something unconstitutional, and we would just have to wait to seek accountability. Well, we say to that that there comes a time when time itself is ready for a change, and that time has come to Nashville. That time has come to Tennessee.
Speaker Cameron Sexton, you can either move on over, or we’ll move on over you, because we’re moving on. And so, friends, Nashville and Tennessee, we hope you’ll join us in the people’s House, because no matter what happens here today, we have a speaker who may not respect the results, so we need people to show up in the chamber and let him know that we will not allow him to stand in the doorways of the Legislature like governors of the past and politicians of the past stood in the doorways of schools, challenging desegregation. We won’t let him stand in the doorways
— source democracynow.org | Apr 11, 2023