On Monday evening, Republican state lawmakers in Nashville moved to expel three Democratic colleagues who led an anti-gun protest on the state House floor last week.
to the corruption charges brought by the DOJ last year.)
“We had a child molester on the floor for years. They helped him get reelected and did nothing to expel him,” Johnson told the, referring to Byrd. “We’ve had members pee in each other’s chairs. We’ve had members illegally prescribe drugs to their cousin-mistress, and nothing happened,” Johnson continued, referring to other scandals involving her GOP colleagues. “But talk on the floor without permission, and you’ll get expelled.
But this is obviously not about “decorum.” It’s about a tyrannical Republican majority exercising power, simply because it can. That hasn’t quashed the gun control protests: Demonstrations, including school walkouts, have
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