President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized the ousting of two lawmakers in Tennessee.
“Last week, three more students and three school officials were gunned down in yet another tragic mass shooting in Nashville. On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students, marched to their state capitol to call on their lawmakers to take action and keep them safe,” Biden said in a statement issued by the White House.
The statement came after two Tennessee House lawmakers were expelled Thursday from the state’s general assembly in a vote by the Republican supermajority-controlled state House. There was a third House lawmaker who was also facing expulsion but hung on to her seat by a margin of just one vote….