Nashville’s governing council on Monday afternoon voted unanimously to return expelled Black lawmaker Justin Jones to the Tennessee state legislature.
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The body’s Republican majority expelled Jones and fellow house member Justin Pearson late last week because they led protests in the chamber demanding stricter gun control after a mass shooting at an elementary school in the city days before. Jones took his oath of office on the Capitol steps before speaking on the house floor.

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