'This is going to come back to haunt every member on this House floor,' Tennessee state Representative Joe Towns said ahead of a vote.
for"stacking the deck" against Democratic Representatives Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson after Tennessee Republicans introduced a motion to play a seven-minute video of the three lawmakers from last week.
It is highly anticipated that the ousting will be approved since Republicans control both the House and. Approval by both chambers would make it the first partisan expulsion in the state's modern history. Only two other House members have ever been ousted from the Tennessee chamber since the Civil War.
The Tennessee Capitol in Nashville is seen in an aerial view. On Thursday, Republican lawmakers debated a vote to expel three Democratic representatives from the House.He yelled,"We shouldn't do our members like that because these members have been sent here by the people of Tennessee. Y'all know it's not right.... Give them a fair chance."
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