belittling and demeaning way speaking to their colleagues about, you know, you jus 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
the well of that body. now, they did not expel, as he noted, a third democrat, glori johnson, who also was chanting with those to justin s she s a retired teacher who wa represented knoxville sinc 2019 here s what she said after tha vote that spared her expulsion why do you feel like ther is a difference in the outcome between you and your colleague i will answer your question it might have to do with the color of our skin. i m joined now by tennessee state senator, london lamar, she serves in the upper hous in that state. she previously served in a tennessee house and now chairs the democratic caucus in the senate also joins me, of course, civi rights attorney for presiden director counsel of the naac legal defense fund senator london, let me start with you what is going through your mind, as you are watching this unfol in the state capitol in whic you serve? i m right now sitting in my
been one of the big themes here, right? in our coverage of the country right? we ve got the situation in which, again, this is a stat that donald trump won by something like 22 points this is a fairly saf republican state, in many ways statewide office, they went th extra step, harry, to give themselves the extra power o 75 seats, or whatever it is. so, they have this unbelievabl power on their hands and eve with that, you see the expelling rightfully elected members of the state yeah, i mean, i at leas link it to the national i don t want to be too fas here, but it does seem to me that the numbers they have i different outposts or used not for ideas, but there s jus nothing greater than jus sticking it to their enemy that is the reason to have government power and, you know it s that viciousness. we are going to take a quic break, try to see if we can ge a better feet out of tennessee ali muscle, harry lippman, sta
the world is watching tennessee. the world is watchin tennessee. because what is happening here today is a farce of democracy. this is a historic day for tennessee, but it is may mark very dark day for tennessee, because it was signaled to the nation that there is n democracy in this state. it will signal to the nation and that if it can happen here in tennessee, it s coming to your state next. of course, these events continue to unfold we are now showing you liv coverage of the aftermath of that final expulsion vote fo justin pearson, representative justin pearson now, it takes two thirds of th tennessee legislature to approve an expulsion this afternoon, the chambe voted 70 to 25 to oust representative justin jones. to house a protest both outsid and inside the chamber
let you literally in front o the hole - that s exactly what happened today. sherrilyn, to go back to th broader context here, this is very aggressive jury gerrymandering in the state, among state assembly lines obviously, it s a very republican state, but it s a enormous lopsided 75 to 25 something in that range. you know, we ve seen this in wisconsin, we ve seen it i north carolina, a state that s very, very hotly contested i which there s two thirds majority is now in both houses thanks to that gerrymander we see it in state after state that s part of what facilitating this here even though tendencies a conservative state and doe have a republican, you know, statewide office, part o what s facilitating this is th way they ve drawn the district so that they have the power to do what they are doing today absolute power corrupts absolutely and today was a example of an abuse of power i do want to say a word abou due process because when you have the kind of supermajority that they