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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. "We had the opportunity as members of Congress to attend the intelligence community briefing about what took place in terms of hacking and the intrusion of the Russian government into our electoral processes," she told me.
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.
Shortly before noon on Friday a military aide will enter the Capitol with President Obama carrying a leather-covered aluminum briefcase with the information and equipment needed to launch nuclear war. Precisely at noon, control of that briefcase will pass to a man who has been described by scores of security experts in his own party as lacking the judgment, temperament and knowledge to command nuclear weapons.
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.
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.
Under the Twitter moniker #IStandWithJohnLewis Democrats from California to New York to Texas are essentially throwing a collective temper tantrum in light of Hillary Clinton's stunning loss to the anti-establishment figure.
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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.
The number of lawmakers boycotting the inauguration shot up after Trump lashed out on Twitter at Georgia Rep. John Lewis, the Civil Rights icon who marched with Martin Luther King Jr., and who said on "Meet the Press" this weekend that he would boycott the inauguration because he doesn't think Trump's presidency is legitimate.
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.
Trump's tweet was posted at 7:50 a.m., hours after Lewis, the civil-rights icon who was badly beaten at the Selma bridge in 1965 during a voting rights march, said he would skip Trump's inauguration next week as an act of protest.
Civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis knows a thing or two about fighting for what's right, and this week he's taken another moral stand: refusing to attend the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Speaking to NBC News, the Georgia congressman said, "I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president… I think the Russians participated in helping this man get elected."