Whereas, on November 8, 2022, the people of House District 52 elected Justin Jones in the general election for the Tennessee House of Representatives; Whereas, on November 8, 2022, the people of House District 90 elected Gloria Johnson in the general election for the Tennessee House of Representatives; Whereas, on March 14, 2023, the people of House District 86 elected Justin J. Pearson in the special election for the Tennessee House of Representatives; Whereas, on March 27, 2023, a school shooting with legally bought weapons took place at The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee; Whereas, on March 30, 2023, Representatives Pearson, Jones, and Johnson led a gun control protest on the House floor following the mass shooting, advocating for the passage of gun reform legislation; Whereas Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly claimed that these elected officials brought disorder and dishonor to the Tennessee House of Representatives for fighting for common-sense gun reform legislation following the tragic murder of three children and three adults at The Covenant School; Whereas, on April 6, 2023, the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Black lawmakers, Justin Jones in a 72 to 25 vote and Justin J. Pearson in a 69 to 26 vote, for exercising their constitutional right to protest; Whereas expulsion has only been used in rare circumstances including in 1866 for attempting to prevent passage of the 14th Amendment, in 1980 for bribery, and in 2016 for sexual misconduct; Whereas the White lawmaker, Representative Gloria Johnson, who joined the protest alongside Representative Jones and Representative Pearson, was not expelled; Whereas Representative Jones and Representative Pearson represented the State’s largest cities, with large Black populations; Whereas, as a result, over 136,000 Tennesseans in Memphis and Nashville have had their democratic right to representation stripped from them