NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ousted Tennessee Rep. Justin Jones is headed back to the statehouse after the Nashville Metro Council unanimously voted to reinstate the freshman Democrat to his former seat.

Jones, 27, was kicked out of the Legislature last week by a Republican supermajority for participating in a gun reform protest on the House floor, a violation of decorum rules. The GOP also removed Rep. Justin Pearson, another millennial Black Democrat, for the same violation.

The pair has risen to national prominence as the political firestorm resulting from the unprecedented partisan removal drew national attention to the deep red state.