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The white, female Democratic legislator was not expelled but the two black male Democratic legislators were. The white legislator barely escaped expulsion.

Legislators should not be expelled as a result of nonviolent civil disobedience. It is true that there are rules for expulsion and those rules were followed but when things like this are used in an unprecedented way and the normal way legislative bodies function gets upended suddenly it’s a bad sign. Democrats have not kept up with the new political reality.