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Seth Herald/Getty Images(NASHVILLE, Tenn.)  Nashville s Metro Council unanimously voted to reinstate Justin Jones, the Tennessee House representative who was ousted last week for taking part in a gun control rally. Jones will serve as an interim legislator until a special election is called. "This is about people power. It shows that people power is the ultimate power, not the decision of [House Speaker] Cameron Sexton, but the decision of the people," Jones said after the hearing on Monday. Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman, the council s president, told ABC News that members quickly scheduled the meeting following Thursday s vote by the Republican-led statehouse to expel Jones and Justin J. Pearson for allegedly violating the chamber s rules of decorum by participating in the March 30 protest. State Rep. Gloria Johnson, who also took part in the protest that was prompted by the March 27 mass shooting at the Covenant School, was also subjected to an expulsion vote, but

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