One of the two Black Democrats who were expelled last week from the Republican-led Tennessee House was reinstated Monday after Nashville’s governing council voted to send him straight back to the legislature.
The unanimous vote by the Nashville Metropolitan Council restored Rep. Justin Jones to office just four days after Republicans stripped him of his seat.
Republicans banished the two lawmakers last week over their role in a gun-control protest on the House floor in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting.
The other lawmaker, Justin Pearson, could be reappointed Wednesday.
County legislatures are empowered to fill local vacancies to the Tennessee statehouse until a
