By MARK STRASSMANN, TUCKER REALS
Nashville — Lawmakers in Nashville have been under pressure to tighten gun laws after last week’s deadly school shooting in the Tennessee capital. Protesters filled the state house chamber a week ago and, at one point, Democratic legislators led a chant of “power to the people” from the house floor, using a bullhorn.
On Thursday, those three Democrats face an unprecedented vote that could see the Republican supermajority in control of the state’s legislature expel them from office. The Republican leadership accuses Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson of breaking the house’s rules on conduct and decorum.
Democrats see it as blatant retribution and an extreme enforcement of conduct rules using an expulsion mechanism typically reserved for criminal activity.
The White House even weighed in on Wednesday, with Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre accusing Republican lawmakers of focusing on rebuking Democrats for protesting rather than on ways to prevent further school shootings.
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