Republican lawmakers in the Tennessee House filed resolutions to expel three Democratic members of the chamber for allegedly hijacking proceedings last week in an effort to protest gun laws.

The three resolutions would expel state Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones, and Justin Pearson, alleging they brought "disorder and dishonor" upon the state House of Representatives.

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During protests on March 30, the three Democratic lawmakers interrupted proceedings for the chamber by using a megaphone to call for gun control laws and disregarding rules on decorum, among other House rules, according to state House Speaker Cameron Sexton.

"Their actions are and will always be unacceptable, and they break several rules of decorum and procedure on the House floor. Their actions and beliefs that they could be arrested on the House floor were an effort, unfortunately, to make themselves the victims," the speaker tweeted.

"In effect, those actions took away the voices of the protestors, the focus on the six victims who lost their lives, and the families who lost their loved ones," he tweeted later.

The three Democratic lawmakers were outraged by the resolution, saying it was an infringement on their right to protest and that they did not violate any rules.

“We walked to the well to speak to the people who were begging us to protect them. Article two of the state constitution states that lawmakers have a right to protest against and dissent from any legislation that’s injurious to the people and have their protest marked in the journal of the house’s. That’s what we were doing," Johnson told local television station WSMV.

“People acknowledging their First Amendment in this state is what being sought of being expelled. This is wrong. This is not a democracy; this is what a dictatorship and oligarchy ... not here in the state of Tennessee, not in the United States of America," Pearson said.

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The members' expulsion would require two-thirds to vote for the resolution. Republicans now have 75 seats compared to the Democrats' 24 seats.

The house speaker has already stripped the three legislators of their committee assignments. The vote for the resolutions to expel the members will come on Thursday.