Republican lawmakers in the Southern U.S. state of Tennessee made the rare move of expelling two Democratic lawmakers Thursday from the state legislature because they participated in a protest last week at the State Capitol calling for more gun control, following the recent deadly school shooting in Nashville that killed three adults and three 9-year-old students.
A third lawmaker avoided the ouster by one vote.
“We called for you all to ban assault weapons, and you respond with an assault on democracy,” Justin Jones... Читать дальше...