Washington Examiner
President Joe Biden will welcome the “Tennessee Three” to the White House on Monday but has not extended invitations to the families of the victims of the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville.
State Reps. Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, and Gloria Johnson, all Democrats, led anti-gun violence protests responding to the Covenant shooting onto the state House floor, prompting Republican legislators to vote to oust them. Pearson and Jones, both of whom are black, were temporarily removed from the body, while Johnson, who is white, was not voted out of office.
“Earlier this month, the president spoke to them by phone after they were subjugated to expulsion votes in the Tennessee Statehouse for peacefully protesting in support of stronger gun safety laws following the shooting at Covenant School in Nashville,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters of the visit during Wednesday’s press briefing. “During that call, the president thanked them for their leadership in seeking to ban assault weapons and standing up for the democratic values, and the three lawmakers thanked the president for his leadership on gun safety and for spotlighting the undemocratic and unprecedented attacks on them in a Tennessee Statehouse. The president looks forward to continuing that discussion when they all meet with him on Monday.”
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