Ousted Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson tells ThisWeekABC co-anchor jonkarl he expects to be quickly reappointed to the state House after what he called his 'unprecedented' expulsion for participating in a raucous gun violence protest.
"This is one of the greatest tactics of voter disenfranchisement and voter oppression that I've ever witnessed," Pearson argued on "This Week."
"To realize that yes, it is in schools and that's something that we need to deal with, but it is also in our communities," Pearson said. "That's because there's been a proliferation of guns and also a proliferation of laws in Republican-led majority legislatures like here in Tennessee that continue to have negative consequences for our communities."
Thursday's vote was "not only unprecedented, it is historical in nature, it is a historical abuse of power by [Speaker] Cameron Sexton and the super-majority Republican Legislature who would rather expel our voices and tried to expel our people's voices from the people's house, rather than address the issue of gun violence and the need for real gun safety reform legislation that could prevent people from dying in the first place.
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