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hopefully those representatives will be reinstated or reelected if possible

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representative democracy is a system in which the people elect representatives to vote on their behalf

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Are the remaining lawmakers still allowed to pass laws or do their jobs while two lawmakers are missing?

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Are the remaining lawmakers still allowed to pass laws or do their jobs while two lawmakers are missing?

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There should be a reevaluation of what happened to reinstate the members that were unjustly expelled.

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The lawmakers of Tennessee are distracting from the gun violence issue and expelling representatives for voicing their opinion on the issue and continuing to do nothing about gun violence   

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The lawmakers of Tennessee are distracting from the gun violence issue and expelling representatives for voicing their opinion on the issue and continuing to do nothing about gun violence   

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They were elected then kicked out for trying to stand up for what they wanted to enforce possibly because of race/gender. The lawmakers tried to cover up the shooting with kicking them out. 

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They were elected then kicked out for trying to stand up for what they wanted to enforce possibly because of race/gender. The lawmakers tried to cover up the shooting with kicking them out. 

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What were the lawmakers exact reasons for expelling the representatives 

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What were the lawmakers exact reasons for expelling the representatives 

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To bring forward the struggles and opinions of someone else.

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Representation is about a person or a group of people having a seat in their government. 

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Representation is about a person or a group of people having a seat in their government. 

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People are focusing on what they did (being loud, disruptive or whatever) that got them expelled or on their race and gender but I think the issue of gun violence being ignored in favor of those things is a problem in itself

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People are focusing on what they did (being loud, disruptive or whatever) that got them expelled or on their race and gender but I think the issue of gun violence being ignored in favor of those things is a problem in itself

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It shows that certain representatives can gang up on other representatives from certain districts and expel them, effectively taking the voting power away from the people of those districts. This is very dangerous for our democracy as it favors a certain portion of the population when everyone's vote should matter.

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put them back in office and focus on gun violence

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This event disrupts the democracy of Tennessee because the opinions of citizens were not considered.

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Representation is the ability to have many voice's heard and communicated through one person.

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Representation is the ability to have many voice's heard and communicated through one person.

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To represent different topics, ideas,  and peoples

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To represent different topics, ideas,  and peoples

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With two people being expelled, it causes an imbalance of republican and democratic representatives within the democracy of Tennessee

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With two people being expelled, it causes an imbalance of republican and democratic representatives within the democracy of Tennessee

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Having one person or idea/thing etc. to portray a larger group of people/things/ideas

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Seems like while there is a republican majority. Aswell the NRA is existing. The money that this big company is giving to these is law makers under the table May be a very big factor on why there is no change. One argument it seems they are keep on using ie mental health for keeping guns. They say that people with mental health issues shoukd not have guns. And will use this person who was mid 20s struggling with gender identity and has series of mental health as the problem with guns. Yet they make guns more accessible to these exact type of people when passing these news laws such as the one in Florida.

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This event affects our democracy by setting a new precedent for the overruling the decisions of the people.

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This event affects our democracy by setting a new precedent for the overruling the decisions of the people.

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Two people were expelled from the positions that they were elected to.

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Two people were expelled from the positions that they were elected to.

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a government where people vote and elect representatives of their state and country

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a government where people vote and elect representatives of their state and country

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a system of government in which decisions are made by a majority vote from the people of that state

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There are now two missing representatives, which impedes the democratic process

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It highlights the level of corruptness in our government. even at a district level!

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What are the lawmakers true intentions? (on this topic) 

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What are the lawmakers true intentions? (on this topic) 

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Are The people who kicked them out of office justified in anyway? Did they take an oath or break the rules to be in the situation they are in right now?  

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Are The people who kicked them out of office justified in anyway? Did they take an oath or break the rules to be in the situation they are in right now?  

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A form of representative government in which people are elected to represent their constituents. 

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A form of representative government in which people are elected to represent their constituents. 

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a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.

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Answer the questions to the right anonymously by adding posts below the questions.

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Jones and Pearson represent 140,000 constituents in Tennessee. News outlets are reporting that Nashville's city council and the Memphis board of commissioners will likely vote to allow Jones and Pearson (respectively) to reclaim their seats temporarily later this week so that their constituents don't feel disenfranchised by the absence of their representative.

Metropolitan Nashville and Memphis contain the bluest counties in Tennessee. And the Blackest counties in Tennessee.

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The Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives has expelled two Democratic lawmakers in what marks the first partisan expulsion in the state's modern history.

On April 6, state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson were expelled for allegedly violating the chamber's rules of decorum by participating in a gun control protest at the state Capitol last week. The protest was in response to the mass school shooting in Nashville that left three children and three adults dead.

Jones and Pearson used a bullhorn to lead chants on the House floor, briefly disrupting legislative business. Gloria Johnson, a fellow Democrat who also faced expulsion on Thursday for protesting but was not seen using the bullhorn, was spared from expulsion by one vote.

However, this isn't the first time the state legislature has ousted a member. The Tennessee state House used its power to expel only three other times in its long history, according to a 2019 report from the former state attorney general's office.

People react to the expulsion of the last member Rep. Justin Pearson on the day it is scheduled to vote to expel three Democratic members in Nashville, Tenn., April 6, 2023.

In 1866, the House expelled six members "for the contempt of the authority of this House."

In 1980, then-Rep. Robert Fisher, a Republican, was expelled after he was found guilty of accepting a bribe while in office, according to the attorney general.

The House argued the expulsion was best for Fisher's constituents because his actions reflect "adversely upon [its] integrity and dignity ... places a cloud upon [its] actions ... and is inconsistent with the public trust and duty of a member of this Body," according to the 2019 report.

In 2016, then-Rep. Jeremy Durham, a Republican, was expelled after reports detailed allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct with several women over the course of his time in office, according to reporting by ABC affiliate WTVC.

The House expelled him for "disorderly conduct."

The state Senate has never exercised its power to expel a member, according to the AG report.

The United States Congress has rarely exercised this power. In its history, it has expelled 20 legislators -- five in the House and 15 in the Senate. Seventeen of these expulsions occurred around 1861 in the wake of secession of the Confederate States, according to the attorney general's office.

Democratic state Rep. Justin Jones speaks to supporters before he was expelled from the state Legislature on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tenn.

As for the other three:

In 1797, William Blount of Tennessee, a Republican, was expelled from the Senate for having "concocted a scheme for Indians and frontiersmen to attack Spanish Florida and Louisiana in order to transfer those territories to Great Britain" for his own financial gain, according to congressional documents.

In 1980, the House expelled then-Rep. Michael Myers, a Democrat from Pennsylvania, after he was indicted on bribery charges.

In 2002, then-Rep. James Traficant, a Democrat who represented Ohio, was expelled from the House when he was convicted on "federal corruption charges and for misuse of campaign funds," the attorney general's report reads.

Following the Thursday expulsion of Jones and Pearson, the legislators themselves -- among others -- criticized the move as "undemocratic."

Jones argued the "precedent that any member who voices dissent or opposition can be expelled from the legislative body."

"Today is a very dangerous day for America," Jones added in a hallway interview after the vote.

Johnson, who narrowly avoided expulsion, told reporters that the reason she kept her position and her Black colleagues didn't "might have to do with the color of our skin."

Republicans have denied allegations of racial discrimination.

"Our members literally didn't look at the ethnicity of the members up for expulsion," said Majority Leader William Lamberth, according to The Associated Press.

Tennessee state Rep. Jeremy Faison, the chair of the Republican Caucus, defended the move in an interview with CNN.

"It's not possible for us to move forward with the way they were behaving in committee and on the House floor," Faison said. "There's got to be some peace."

President Joe Biden criticized the move from the Republican-controlled legislature.

"On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students, marched to their state capitol to call on their lawmakers to take action and keep them safe," Biden said. "Instead, state Republican lawmakers called votes today to expel three Democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with students and families and helped lift their voices. Today's expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protest is shocking, undemocratic and without precedent."
ABC News' Amanda Su contributed to this report.

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Tennessee lawmaker expulsions: Has this happened before?

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The Republican-controlled Tennessee state House of Representatives has expelled two Democratic lawmakers in what marks the first partisan expulsion in the state's modern history. On April 6, state Reps. Justin Jones and Justin J. Pearson were expelled for allegedly violating the chamber's rules of decorum by participating in a gun control protest at the state Capitol last week.