trip ahead for you just one lawmaker who joined protesters demanding meaningful gun legislation at the state capital kept her seat yesterday. representative gloria johnson, a white woman, slammed the expulsion of her colleagues justin jones and justin pearson, two of the state s youngest black lawmakers, saying she was the only one to be spared was quote, pretty clear. outrage over the pair s removal is being felt across the country, coupled with the concern of the dangerous precedent this is sending. and a short time ago, tennessee s black caucus whose chairman called the decision an assault on democracy that quote, smacks of overt racism spoke out. it looked like a jim crow era trial, where we saw two black men fighting for their careers, fighting for their reputations. the world is watching tennessee, and yet again, they re watching it for the wrong reasons. quite frankly, i m kpexhausted. what are we going to do now is it going to be business as usual, it happened t
this is setting. this came nowhere near the past far more egregious instances lawmakers have been expelled for. it was quick, effective. is there a possibility that other conservative chambers are going to adopt this method of literally silencing those they don t agree with you know, i think so because tennessee is a bellwether of conservative action. tennessee republican leaders like to say that we are leading the nation, and we do lead in things like poor health, and hospital debt, but also our governor bill lee, republican governor bill lee who s close with ron desantis, the first governor in the state to sign a bill banning certain types of drag, and drag performers. tennessee has inarguably the harshest abortion ban in the state. we have almost no gun laws, except that each year the legislature passes looser and looser gun laws, and there s currently a bill to allow in the state house to allow 18-year-olds to carry any type