House Speaker Johnson rejects request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor at Capitol

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.

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