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- House Speaker Mike Johnson denied the family's request for Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda, noting Jackson never held federal office and thus did not meet traditional criteria.
- Johnson's office cited long-standing House precedent that typically reserves the Rotunda for presidents, former members of Congress, military leaders, and Supreme Court justices.
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