Tennessee lawmaker expelled over gun control protest to be reseated

A CITY council in Tennessee voted yesterday to send a Democratic lawmaker back to the state’s legislature days after he was expelled for disrupting a session with calls for stricter gun control laws.

Justin Jones and another Democratic colleague, both of whom are black, were expelled by Republican lawmakers last Thursday after they disrupted an assembly session, demanding stricter gun controls in the wake of a mass shooting at an elementary school in Nashville.