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 office just absolutely paste a the massive display of racis that you just experienced by watching the expulsion of tw black men who were sent here overwhelmingly voted by thei district, and they expelle them for speaking out agains gun violence, but they kept th white women in office, who was just as guilty of speaking out against gun violence, and ha displayed multiple acts of disruption and civil disobedience throughout th years that she has been here and so, what you re seeing i the gop s fragility and that absolute disregard for democracy in our country, what they re doing with these two black men here in this state
be sanctioned, one can b stripped of committe assignments, which all three o these representatives were o the day of their protest but the most extreme i expulsion because expulsion is a sanction not just agains representative, but against th voters who voted them into office justin pearson and justin jone were just elected. they are in their firs session. justin johnson was sworn in on january 10th this is what they did to these young men who just entered the state house. and if you heard - chris, i m sure that, you know your other guests can attest t this, this is part of a broade context of what has been happening in the house the silencing of democrati representatives, of blac
saying that gloria johnson was spared expulsion from some of the members of the republica caucus that she wasn t - i d like to bring back in elie mystal, justice corresponden at the nation. and harry litman, deputy assistant general in the department of justice western district o pennsylvania this is the case that s bein mowed, ali, according to johnson s transgressions, an that s what spared her and there s nothing else to se here well, you see chris the white lady was nic about. it wore the black man were allowed. so loud they had a bullhorn, that s why we had to lunge them! that s what they did that argument is ridiculous, all right. any media company that runs it is just surfacing whit supremacism stuff on their air there is no, no lega distinction and that is made law that they ve created for
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that we are that is better than the presen that we currently have [inaudible anything else you want to say? we will keep fighting for people in nashville, in memphis, across the state of tennessee, and across the united states o america, who want justice. we deserve it. this is our birthright, ou inheritance is not just some pieces of paper in constitutions and rules. it s the advocacy and th willingness to protest for what s right, to create and to advocate for laws tha make justice more possible and so, that s what we re goin to do. thank you, sir. god bless you that is justin pearson, he one of the representatives tha was expelled today, along with justin jones and other representative, another as he, said young black man elected b the constituents and voters in their district to represen them in the house and no expelled by that same house. the choice of those individual in those districts rejected by the overwhelmingly white majority of the republican caucus in the