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With assistance from CWA, interpreters Ismail Charania of Norcross, Ga., and Clariselle Ocasio of Connecticut, , visited lawmakers on Capitol Hill to advocate for better working conditions for all immigration court interpreters. The government is currently providing interpretation services through a low-road contractor, SOS International .
A Georgia congressman who joined Martin Luther King Jr. in the historic Selma march will speak at Berea College's commencement ceremony next month. Rep. John Lewis helped organize the march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 that demanded an end to voter registration discrimination.
President Trump and the executive committee of the Congressional Black Caucus will meet Wednesday morning, the White House and the office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., confirmed. Trump, leadership of Congressional Black Caucus, to meet Wednesday President Trump and the executive committee of the Congressional Black Caucus will meet Wednesday morning, the White House and the office of U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., confirmed.
On March 7, 1965, a march by peaceful civil rights demonstrators turned violent when the group was attacked on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. According to history.com, "Although Wallace ordered state troopers 'to use whatever measures are necessary to prevent a march,' approximately 600 voting rights advocates set out from the Brown Chapel AME Church on Sunday, March 7. King, who had met with President Lyndon Johnson two days earlier to discuss voting rights legislation, remained back in Atlanta with his own congregation and planned to join the marchers en route the following day.
In the days after President Donald Trump's first travel ban was introduced on January 27, clients streamed into Neha Vyas' Seattle law office. Some just wanted to hear a reassuring voice.
Democrats have a long way to go to rebuild their party after brutal losses across the board last November. But they're seeing glimmers of hope in recent and upcoming special elections where they argue the backlash to President Trump is resulting in change at the ballot box.
For the past two months, Democratic leaders have been reportedly discussing ways to approach the presidency of Donald Trump and have largely landed on a conclusion: fight him at every turn in a 'not-now-not-ever' opposition. Politico reported that it conducted interviews with about two dozen Democrats in office who were willing to discuss the internal debate.
Two big and passionate crowds descended on Washington on Friday - one thrilled by Donald Trump's inauguration, the other appalled. Never in my lifetime has a new president been anticipated with such raw enthusiasm on one side and such fear and loathing on the other.
President Donald Trump shows off his signature on an executive order about the Dakota Access pipeline, Tuesday in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. WASHINGTON >> Donald Trump holds the most powerful office in the world.
As a black man from Alabama, Willie Huntley Jr. has deep reverence for civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, an organizer of the landmark marches from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. So Huntley got a little emotional earlier this month when he found himself in the same Senate hearing room as Lewis.
No. He should stand in solidarity with U.S. Rep. John Lewis and other congressional members who aren't attending. I don't care what he does on inauguration day, as long as he does a good job as a congressman.
Once Donald Trump responded to John Lewis's "illegitimate president" attack, the question wasn't whether Trump's pushback would cause a Twitter furor. It would.
According to the Plastic Surgery Group, in their round-up of cosmetic trend predictions for 2017: “We have seen a 30 percent rise in women requesting a smaller nipple size in the last year.” Apparently, smaller nipples are now a fashion statement, which complements the new body look, which according to Plastic Surgery Group is “the ultra-toned, shredded athletic type…” Vogue magazine recently declared that cleavage was “over,” with the Guardian observing that “Cleavage appears now in another form, having sunk some inches towards the hips where it's been rebranded as an “ab crack.” “The most common surgical procedure done this past year [in 2012] was breast augmentation followed by liposuction, tummy tuck, eyelid surgery, and rhinoplasty.
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Registration will allow you to post comments on fairfieldcitizenonline.com and create a fairfieldcitizenonline.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Rep. John Lewis Lewis said on "Meet the Press" that he doesn't think Trump's presidency is legitimate.
Paul LePage, Maine's controversial Republican governor, is not a fan of Georgia Congressman John Lewis's recent remarks regarding Donald Trump's legitimacy. On Tuesday, he told Maine radio station WVOM that instead of challenging Trump's presidency, Lewis should be thankful that the slaves were freed.
Since civil rights icon John Lewis called the Trump presidency illegitimate, more than 50 of his Democratic colleagues in the House of Representatives have echoed his call to boycott the inauguration. Yet no Democratic senator has joined Lewis in the past few days, nor so explicitly questioned the validity of the presidential election.
President-elect Donald Trump has told 'Fox & Friends' co-host Ainsley Earhardt that he doesn't mind Democratic members of Congress boycotting his inauguration, saying "I hope they give me their tickets." At least 60 Democratic members of the House of Representatives have opted to miss Friday's ceremonies, most notably Georgia Rep. John Lewis, who said last week that he did not consider Trump a "legitimate" president.
Donald Trump said Rep. John Lewis is "wrong" to suggest that the President-elect's inauguration is the first he will boycott such an event, citing the Georgia congressman also protested the first inauguration of George W. Bush. "John Lewis said about my inauguration, 'It will be the first one that I've missed.'
APRIL 09: Rep. John Lewis makes a few remarks on Arts Advocacy Day sponsored by Ovation at Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2013 in Washington, DC. Donald Trump reignited his feud with John Lewis on Tuesday, citing news reports that the Georgia congressman and civil rights icon also boycotted George W. Bush's inauguration 16 years ago.