SPRINGFIELD — In a sobering signal of the days, plywood went up over home windows of the Illinois State Capitol on Friday, and Gov. J.B. Pritzker activated every other 250 contributors of the Illinois National Guard. Unlike the sooner Guard contributors that the governor activated for responsibility in Washington, D.C., the most recent contingent shall be charged with conserving the peace right here within the central Illinois town the place Abraham Lincoln gave his well-known “House Divided” speech. It all stems from an FBI intelligence briefing caution of armed protests deliberate in all 50 state capitals in a country divided within the week main as much as the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. “Following the violent siege at our
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Trump supporters hurricane U.S. Capitol, prompting lockdown with
WASHINGTON — A violent mob unswerving to President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and compelled lawmakers into hiding, in a shocking try to overturn America’s presidential election, undercut the country’s democracy and stay Democrat Joe Biden from changing Trump within the White House. The country’s elected representatives scrambled to crouch beneath desks and donned gasoline marks, whilst police futilely attempted to barricade the construction, one of the crucial jarring scenes ever to spread in a seat of American political energy. A girl was once shot and killed throughout the Capitol, and Washington’s mayor instituted a night curfew in an try to comprise the violence. The rioters had been egged on by means of Trump, who has
John Lewis memorial: Civil rights icon venerated in Capitol
WASHINGTON — In a solemn show of bipartisan solidarity, congressional leaders praised the overdue Democratic Rep. John Lewis as an ethical power for the country on Monday in a Capitol Rotunda rite wealthy with symbolism and punctuated through the booming, recorded voice of the overdue civil rights icon. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referred to as Lewis the “conscience of the Congress” who was once “revered and beloved on both sides of the aisle, on both sides of the Capitol.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell praised the longtime Georgia congressman as a style of braveness and a “peacemaker.” “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” McConnell, a Republican, stated, quoting the Rev. Martin Luther