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   From: adrastea2050@live.com   
      
   House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse   
   Jackson Sr. to lie in honor at the United States Capitol, citing past   
   precedent over how the deaths of other high-profile figures were handled,   
   according to sources familiar with the matter.   
      
   The civil rights icon died this week at the age of 84. Jackson was praised   
   by both Republicans and Democrats alike for his decades of activism and   
   work in politics and international affairs. President Donald Trump   
   repeatedly described Jackson this week as a “good man.”   
      
   One of the sources told CNN that the decision to reject the request to lie   
   in honor – which had been made on behalf of Jackson’s family – was in   
   keeping with precedent and was not political. The source said that   
   requests for conservative political activist Charlie Kirk and former Vice   
   President Dick Cheney were also denied, and that the general practice is   
   for select military officials and select government officials to lie in   
   honor. But civilians or non-government officials have lain in honor in the   
   US Capitol in the past, including civil rights hero Rosa Parks in 2005 and   
   evangelical pastor Rev. Billy Graham in 2018, among others.   
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-speaker-johnson-rejects-   
   request-for-jesse-jackson-to-lie-in-honor-at-capitol/ar-   
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