When Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson joined two colleagues in boisterous chants for gun reform on the state Capitol's House floor last Thursday during a recess between bills, it was largely because she knows firsthand about the trauma that plagues, even at times consumes, an individual after experiencing a school shooting.
“Evidently these are not expulsion-worthy displays of unethical behavior or lack of decorum,” Carrie Russell, a political science professor at Vanderbilt University told Yahoo News in an email, while duly acknowledging that a move like this “signals that dissent and protesting against the stated agenda, regardless of the context, will procedurally engender the most extreme measures – rendering their seats vacant and removing the ability of the voters in the states’ most diverse districts to...
“Expulsion directly removes a duly elected official. It takes the decision out of the hands of the electorate,” Susan Haynes, an associate professor of political science at Lipscomb University in Nashville, told Yahoo News, adding that expulsion in this circumstance, “lessens the threshold for what qualifies as an expellable offense.”
"Expelling these legislators would immediately strip thousands of Tennesseeans of elected representation in the state Legislature, and the expulsion proceedings could work to silence the voices that these members aimed to amplify," Morgan told Yahoo News."At the same time, the ripple effects from this expulsion effort could actually galvanize the supporters of theFanning the flames of heightened frustrations, on Monday, Republican Rep.
"They voluntarily disqualified themselves from further service," Bulso said."Rather than comply with their oath to the Constitution and comply with the rules, they decided to go outside of the House and effectively shut it down. And so what we're simply doing is recognizing that they've voluntarily chosen to put themselves outside the House and formally expel them."
Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University, sees some lingering questions for the state House’s ultimate voting body.
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