Nashville officials to vote on reinstating expelled Democratic lawmaker.

A Nashville-area county council may return one of two Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the state House of Representatives last week over a gun control protest. Republicans who control the state House of Representatives voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men who recently joined the legislature, over their rule-breaking protest on the House floor on March 30. At least 29 of the 40 members of the Metropolitan Council for Nashville and Davidson County have said they back appointing Jones as an interim representative for his previous seat until a special election can be held.