GOP Lawmakers in Tennessee Expel Two Elected Democrats in Retaliation for Protesting Gun Violence

MAGA lawmakers in the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Democratic lawmakers and over 200,000 constituents won't have any representation now.

They removed two of the three duly elected Democratics who protested on the chamber floor to call for gun reform following last month's school shooting in Nashville.

The two who were expelled were black. The other one, Rep. Gloria Johnson, is white. Asked why she wasn't she suggested it was her skin color. 

There's only been two cases in the state's history in the last 157 years where lawmakers were expelled from the state House. One in 1980 and one in 2016 for actual crimes.

The current GOP dominated House is looking at kicking the elected lawmakers out for... wait for it... breaking House decorum rules.

That's never happened before. The normal procedure would have been to admonish them and have them escorted from the floor by the sergeant-of-arms. That's it. No further punitive action.

One of the targeted lawmakers, Justin Jones of Nashville summed up what was happening.

"It's morally insane that a week after a mass shooting took sex precious lives in my community here in Nashville, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, their first action is not to take actions to rein in this proliferation of weapons of war in our streets, but to expel their colleagues for standing with their constituents."

The Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton, a Republican, was confronted by a reporter who asked about disenfranchising all those voters and he made a snarky reply to the effect that they should have voted for someone else.

Instead of rushing to expel members for expressing their First Amendment rights the House of MAGA should have been looking at gun safety laws.

It's all about the fascist movement the Republican party has adopted to turn the United States into an authoritarian government. Full stop.

Once again, a MAGA majority succeeded in suppressing the voters will by expelling their representatives.

The thing that really pisses me off is when Sexton compared the 5,000 protesting students at the state House to the Jan. 6 insurrectionists.

That's how low Republicans have sunk on the humanity scale. Even worse, they're succeeding all too often.

As it stands, the battle for democracy is real, with a party of domestic terrorists seeking to install an authoritarian government led by a former twice impeached president who has been charged with 34 felony counts.