A second Democratic legislator has been restored to his seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives after he was controversially expelled from the Republican-controlled chamber for taking part in a gun control protest.Representative Justin Pearson faced expulsion along with Representatives Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson for taking part in the protest on the House floor in the wake of a deadly school shooting in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead.The move represented only the third time since the United States Civil War that the chamber had moved to expel a legislator, and the first time the legislators in question did not face allegations of criminal activity or serious misconduct. The action was decried by the White House and state legislators across the country, who called the expulsion “undemocratic”.
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