A Nashville-area county council on Monday voted to name expelled state Representative Justin Jones as the interim lawmaker to fill his vacated seat, reversing Republican lawmakers who ousted Jones and another young, Black legislator last week for staging a gun control protest on the House floor. The dispute in the Tennessee House of Representatives has captured national attention, pitting Democrats seeking to advance gun control and racial equality against Republicans who have wielded their supermajority in the statehouse as they see fit.
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