can feel good knowing that dan kelly is not going to be abl to sit on the highest cour here in wisconsin, that can be involved in election decisions in the future. yes incredible how states like wisconsin are staying no to following through to the republican party leadership, broadly speaking wisconsin secretary of state sarah godlewski, thank you ver time i really appreciated as always let s continue this conversation now with christin greer, associate professor o political science at fordham university, and barbara mcquade, former - michigan law school, she s als an msnbc legal analyst christina, first, i want to ge your thoughts on what we saw i tennessee this week and what i says about american democracy. there may be some that are looking at it and thinking, oh this is just power politics in a state in tennessee but i, and i m sure you an others, probably see this as a sign of american democracy tha is sadly, at this moment
long have questioned the periphery. they have been silenced. for too long have been tol that they don t belong here. the other voices do not matter that the issues they care abou do not deserve their day in th peoples house. this is a moment and a movemen that says that we are going to continue to push forward, an push on because justice is still possible even in places like th republican supermajority tennessee state legislator justice is still possible. so for me, and for the peopl who are with me, and beside me my family, my community, thi state and everybody wh believes not a better day as possible in tennessee, i can promise that we are going to continue to fight to get jus legislation in this place an turn tennessee into the plac that it is supposed to be, and not the place that it currentl is justin jay peterson, who is one of the two representatives expelled by that supermajority of republicans in the tennesse state house yesterday, it is a great pleasure to talk to yo tonigh
yesterday s vote on whether to expel them for essentially violating house rules. in the end, the republican supreme majority voted overwhelmingly to oust mr. jones, and mr. pierson the motion to expel gloria johnson, however, a 60 year ol white woman failed by a single vote one of the most shocking elements of the whole scene wa that clearly the rage we saw coming from tennessee hous republicans. remember, they hold an overwhelming majority in thi chamber. 75 seats to just 22 democrat face basically zero checks o their power. republicans control both state houses and the governorship. but they did not react well to just a little bit of a challenge, for just a little while. the three democratic members who participated in th protests last week when you step into the well with a bull horn and are yelling and screaming, and are sharing with the people of thi state that you believe tha
we are talking about nothin less than 75 people overruling the wishes of 78,000 people. and you re going to cut off th give me a break! is this a circus you are talking about kickin somebody out of this body, gro up if you can t sit through a conversation or debate o something no less than expelling a colleague, grow up get out of here! you don t belong here! after representative jone became the first tennessee lawmaker expelled for a hous rule violation, we have justin pearson speaking right now let s hear what he has to say. in order that the nationa rifle association and all of these gun lobbyists continue t be able to have control over our legislation, what s goin through my mind right now is w need to play for democracy i the state of tennessee, and we need people not only just to
wanted attention, you ar showboating. to the extent they wanted to reduce attention to th protests, reduce attention t the aftermath of the mas slaughter that happened in nashville and the failure to d anything to restrict guns. this does seem like it s havin the opposite effect, right absolutely. the more they are trying t silence us around the issues o gun reform and gun violence, the more the people are rising up and speaking out against ho we pass laws this contributed to the mass killing of children an innocent people across thi state. first and foremost, to answe your first question, the local governing bodies can t reappointed individuals back into the state house nashville metro government has a meeting monday at 4:32 wit the intent of reappointing representative justice jones back to his seat i m confident that the shelb county commission in memphis will reappoint representativ justin pearson back to his seat, so what they are doing is only building the fire amongs people in