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NASHVILLE, Tenn. AP 鈥?Tennessee Democratic Rep. Justin Jones filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday challenging his expulsion in April and the House rules restricting lawmakers ; floor comments that Republicans applied to silence Jones for part of one day in August.Filed against House Speaker Cameron Sexton and House administrative officials, the lawsuit in Nashville federal court argues that Republicans have repeatedly blocked Jones from speaking during debate in violation of free speech rights under the state and federal constitutions.Additionally, the lawsuit by the Nashville member of the Tennessee Three contends his constitutional due process rights were infringed upon by the expulsion procee
stanley cup dings.READ MORE: Tennessee lawmakers abruptly end tumultuous session spurred by school shootingRepublicans ousted Jones and Rep. Justin Pearson, a fellow young Black Democrat, over their megaphone-amplified protest calling for gun control on
stanley cup the House floor just days after a Christian elementary school shooting killed six people. Republicans spared Democratic Rep. Gloria Johnson, who is white, from expulsion for her role in the demonstration by one vote.Jones and Pearson were quickly reappointed and then reelected in special elections, each attracti
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Officials from Germany, Great Britain and France called for a more comprehensive聽plan聽on Sunday聽to process and distribute聽the hundreds of thousands of migrants who聽have poured into Europe this year, undertaking journeys that ha
stanley cup ve turned deadly and exposing聽gaps聽in countries ; refugee infrastructure.Interior ministers Thomas de Maiziere of Germany, Bernard Cazeneuve of France and Theresa May of Britain stressed the need to set up hot spots in Greece and Italy by the end of the year to register migrants, pressed for a list of European Union countries that are considered safe, and called聽an emergency meeting to discuss how to 8220 trengthen the European response of聽the continental crisis for September 14 in
nike dunk Brussels.A Syrian migrant child sits on the floor while waiting to leave Hungary outside a train station in Budapest, Hungary August 29, 2015. Photo by Laszlo Balogh/ReutersMore than 300,000 migrants, many of whom are f
salomon leeing conflict in Africa and the Middle East, have entered聽southern Europe this year, with at least聽100,000 arriving聽during July alone.In response to the differing laws across Europe governing the steady influx of asylum seekers,聽French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Sunday criticized eastern European countries that have refused to take in migrants, singling out Hungary, which built a fence along its border with Serbia to keep migrants out.French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius attends the Socialist Party 8220