Three Tennessee state lawmakers, all Democrats, were pulled from their committee assignments and could face expulsion from the legislature after they participated in storming the state Capitol during a protest against guns following last week's school shooting.
Tennessee House Republicans voted Monday to strip committee assignments from state Reps.
Justin Jones, Justin J. Pearson and Gloria Johnson, according to WPLN. A potential expulsion for the three lawmakers could come later this week.
The lawmakers joined anti-gun protestors in storming the Capitol last week after a 28-year-old transgender person opened fire inside the Covenant School in Nashville, which killed six people, including three children.
"Just handed this on the House floor, but they still have to vote," Jones said in a tweet after receiving the resolution for potential expulsion from the House of Representatives.
Republican Speaker of the House Cameron Sexton wrote in a tweet that the lawmakers' participation in the protest was "Unacceptable."
"Their actions are and will always be unacceptable, and they break several rules of decorum and procedure on the House floor," he said.
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