White House: Tennessee Republicans ‘want to play politics’ with school shootings
“If this house decides to expel me, then they can do as they feel they must,” Rep. Justin Pearson (center) said at a Monday press conference. “But we must always stand up for what we believe to be right and just. ... Anyone who calls this an insurrection is wrong definitionally and is wrong morally.” (Ian Round/The Daily Memphian)
The White House reaction to the threatened expulsion of three Democratic state Representatives by the majority Republican leadership of the Tennessee House includes calls for an assault weapons ban among other measures.
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