Two African-American Democratic legislators who were ousted from the Tennessee legislature have been reinstated after their local governments voted in their favor and intense student protests were held in the state’s capitol. Days earlier, the Republican majority had kicked the young legislators out, accusing them of violating parliamentary rules of decorum by joining in acts of protest on the legislative floor over the recent mass shooting at a Nashville elementary school. Gerardo Guzman reports from Atlanta.
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