Civil Rights and Social Justice
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, drew widespread criticism Sunday after she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's press briefing on inauguration crowd sizes, saying the newly minted spokesman had given "alternative facts" to those cited in media reports.
Miami is not where Jon Cowan expected to be on Inauguration Day.
Yvette Clarke, a Democratic congresswoman from Brooklyn, New York, had initially planned on attending Donald Trump's inauguration out of respect for tradition and the institution of the presidency. But last week, she started to waver.
A steadily growing number of congressional Democrats are refusing to attend Donald Trump's inauguration, sending a message of resistance at the outset of Trump's presidency. It's less clear, however, what exactly that message is, and whether it will do the Democratic Party much good as it attempts to find its way in the Trump era.
A growing group of Democratic lawmakers will boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration Friday to protest what they described as his alarming and divisive policies, foreign interference in his election and his criticism of civil rights icon John Lewis, a congressman from Georgia.
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Congressman John Lewis' decision to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration has opened the floodgates to a protest movement choreographed by top Democrats in Congress. To date, 55 Democratic lawmakers have joined Lewis in refusing to attend the ceremonies on January 20.
Congressional Democrats are announcing in droves they won't attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, and we'll be updating the list of politicians who will boycott Trump.
At least 19 Democratic members of Congress have announced that they will not attend Donald Trump's inauguration. While some made their decision in earlier weeks, several have come forward today, citing the president-elect's insult of Rep. John Lewis as the final straw.
President-election Donald Trump, in a Twitter outburst Saturday over Rep. John Lewis's comment that he does not see Trump as a legitimate president, said the Georgia congressman should spend more time trying to fix his "horrible" and "crime-infested" district than complaining about the election results.