Few people outside of Tennessee had heard of Justin Jones, Justin Pearson, Gloria Johnson, and state House Speaker Cameron Sexton before last week. After Sexton conducted a vote to expel the three, and the vote on two of them succeeded, all four became national names. The protest in the well of the House did not make national news, or if it did, it not make news long. The expulsion vote is what put the Tennessee House in the news and kept it there for days.
Today, for the national audience now watching, freshly reinstated Jones said Sexton is "an enemy of democracy." Sexton would of course disagree, but I have to wonder, if Sexton had it to do over again, would he conduct an expulsion vote? Or does he wish he took less less-dramatic action to address the decorum rules breach?
It's quite easy to expel someone when you have a super majority and no accountability. But now in the national news subject to blistering criticism and having your every move looked into, Sexton might not be so eager to act so bold.
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