The Shelby County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday voted to confirm the reappointment of Rep. Justin Pearson to the Tennessee House of Representatives, sending him back to fill the House District 86 seat days after he was expelled from House Republicans for protesting gun violence from the House floor following the deadly Nashville school shooting.
The vote to return Pearson to his seat — vacated last Thursday when the GOP-dominated chamber expelled the state representative after he and two other Democrats called for gun reform on the chamber floor — came after the board voted to suspend a rule that would have required a waiting period between his nomination and confirmation.
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