It’s an old story, but one that never gets old: Democrats getting away with anything and everything, while Republicans are held to a different standard. That’s exactly what happened in Tennessee last week, when two Black Democratic lawmakers were expelled from the GOP-led statehouse.
Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were kicked out of the legislature after joining a gun-control protest in the aftermath of a deadly school shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville. Unfortunately, Republican lawmakers weren’t willing to look past the disruption of House proceedings, and they used a mechanism used only a handful of times since the Civil War to expel the two men.
But it seems the story won’t end there. On Monday, the Nashville Metropolitan Council voted unanimously to restore Jones to office. And Pearson could be reappointed as early as Wednesday by the Shelby County Commission.
WOW! Rep. Justin Jones is leading a crowd back to the Tennessee legislature following a vote to reinstate him back into the house.
This is democracy. This is activism. This is what America is all about. pic.twitter.com/D5C3wVXFVE
— Harry Sisson (@harryjsisson) April 10, 2023
The Democrats and the media have both claimed that the move to remove the two lawmakers was racially motivated. White Rep. Gloria Johnson, was spared when she also participated in the protest and the left claims that’s proof. Republicans justified splitting their votes by saying Johnson had less of a role in the protest — she didn’t speak into a megaphone, for example — but Johnson has suggested that race was a factor in why Jones and Pearson were ousted but not her.
BREAKING: Justin Jones was just reinstated in an unanimous vote by the Metro Nashville Council!
Justin Jones, who was expelled by Tennessee Republicans last week from the Tennessee House, is officially a State Rep again.
The irony in all of this is that Jones is not only a… pic.twitter.com/o0fuxpCszh
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) April 10, 2023
It’s an all-too-common story: Democrats get away with civil disobedience, while Republicans are held accountable for their actions. This incident is just one of countless cases in which Democrats are never held to the same standards as GOP lawmakers and their policies.
It remains to be seen whether Jones and Pearson will be successful in their efforts to return to the legislature. My money is on the pair being placed back in the House by the council.
It’s just more of that good old fashion hypocrisy we have all come to expect from the left.
