The three Tennessee Democratic legislators who faced expulsion over gun control protests visited the White House on Monday.
who faced expulsion over gun control protests visited the White House on Monday, elevating their push to overhaul firearm laws with a message that framed the fight as a larger struggle for justice.
Jones described sitting in the Oval Office moments earlier seeing busts of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez — people who “acted outside of the political paradigm of what was possible, and they changed political realities.” Johnson said bipartisan legislators galvanized by last month's school tragedy were pressing for change.
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