The second Tennessee Democrat to be expelled from the state legislature last week after joining protesters in support of new gun safety laws was reinstated to his seat Wednesday, Yahoo News reported.
The Shelby County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to appoint Justin Pearson to fill the seat he lost last Thursday after a supermajority of Republicans voted to boot him from office. The Memphis legislator, who was elected earlier this year, had joined with two colleagues and hundreds of students and parents calling for government action in the wake of the March 27 shooting at a Nashville elementary school that resulted in six deaths.
