President Joe Biden has invited three Tennessee Democrats to the White House who had earlier disrupted state House proceedings with a gun control protest, but is maintaining silence on whether victims of the school shooting incident that triggered the protest would be invited.
Biden will be welcoming Tennessee state Representatives Justin Jones (D-Nashville), Justin Pearson (D-Memphis), and Gloria Johnson (D-Knoxville) to the White House on Monday, April 24, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during an April 19 press briefing. The protest led by the Democrats took place on March 30, after the shooting incident at The Covenant School in Nashville on March 27, which took the lives of three 9-year-old children and three staff members. The protest disrupted proceedings in the state’s House of Representatives and two of the representatives were subsequently expelled from the House….