Tennessee State Rep. Justin J. Pearson has become a progressive star ever since “the Tennessee Three” controversy this spring, when Republicans in the Volunteer State voted to remove him and another black legislator, Justin Jones from elected office. They had committed the sin of violating decorum to join demonstrators in the statehouse who were demanding common sense gun control laws in the wake of the mass shooting at Nashville’s Covenant School on March 27. More

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