President Biden and Vice President Harris are meeting with three Democratic Tennessee lawmakers at the White House, after the trio faced expulsion votes over their act of protest advocating for gun control
In the Oval Office, Biden told the Tennessee lawmakers, “If you stand up for kids, you’re standing up our communities and democratic values.” The three Democrats – Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson – were each subject to an ouster vote by Tennessee Republican lawmakers earlier this month over their protest on the state House floor to advocate for gun control, where they used a bullhorn to address those in the room.
“I think that we need an emergency response because we’re facing a crisis situation … we need the help from our national leaders because we’re in a state where the only action that our colleagues took in response to the mass shooting in Nashville was to expel the two youngest Black lawmakers and then to pass a law to protect gun manufacturers,” Jones told CNN. It’s a big ask for Biden, who has previously said he’s exhausted all the avenues at his disposal as president to stop gun violence.
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