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Johnson denies request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in Capitol

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the Capitol, a source confirmed to The Hill.

After the civil rights leader died this week at age 84, Jackon’s family had requested that he lie in honor in the Capitol, another source said. CNN was first to report Johnson’s decision.

The Speaker considered past precedent mostly reserving the practice for former presidents and select former government officials and military honorees. Requests for conservative activist and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and former Vice President Dick Cheney to lie in the Capitol were also recently denied.

The last person to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda was former President Jimmy Carter, who died last year at age 100.

But other cultural figures have lain in honor in the Capitol rotunda in the past. Rev. Billy Graham lied in honor in the Capitol rotunda in 2018 and civil rights leader Rosa Parks lied in honor in 2005.

Jackson, a two-time presidential candidate, was remembered by the political world for his legacy as a world-renowned civil rights activist and Democratic strategist. The Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which he founded, revealed in November that he was admitted to a hospital “under observation” for PSP, a rare disorder that he had been managing for more than 10 years.  

President Trump labeled him a “force of nature like few others before him.”

He is expected to be memorialized in Chicago in the coming weeks, according to his family.

Mike Lillis contributed.

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