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.
There are now more than 50 House Democrats – 52, at last count – who have declared that they will not attend the inauguration on Capitol Hill this week. The number rose sharply after Trump tweeted Saturday that Lewis, D, is “all talk, talk, talk” and should “finally focus on the burning and crime infested inner-cities.”
Lewis, who sees Trump’s Nov. 8 win as illegitimate because of Russia’s alleged interference in the election, is best known for leading civil rights protests in the 1960s, including the 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in which state troopers brutally attacked the crowd. Lewis will not attend the inauguration, he told NBC News in an interview for Sunday’s “Meet the Press.”
Here’s a list of other lawmakers who will not attend:
Rep. Alma Adams, D-N.C.
Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif.
Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va.
Rep. Earl Blumenauer , D-Ore.
Rep. Brendan Boyle , D-Pa.
Rep. Anthony Brown , D-Md.
Rep. G.K. Butterfield , D-N.C.
Rep. Tony Cardenas , D-Calif.
Rep. Joaquin Castro , D-Tex.
Rep. Judy Chu , D-Calif.
Rep. Katherine Clark , D-Mass.
Rep. Yvette Clarke , D-N.Y.
Rep. William Lacy Clay , D-Mo.
Rep. Steve Cohen , D-Tenn.
Rep. John Conyers Jr. , D-Mich.
Rep. Peter DeFazio , D-Ore.
Rep. Mark DeSaulnier , D-Calif.
Rep. Mike Doyle , D-Pa.
Rep. Keith Ellison , D-Minn.
Rep. Adriano Espaillat , D-N.Y.
Rep. Dwight Evans , D-Pa.
Rep. Marcia Fudge , D-Ohio
Rep. Ruben Gallego , D-Ariz.
Rep. Al Green , D-Tex.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva , D-Ariz.
Rep. Luis Gutiérrez , D-Ill.
Rep. Jared Huffman , D-Calif.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal , D-Wash.
Rep. Barbara Lee , D-Calif.
Rep. John Lewis , D-Ga.
Rep. Ted Lieu , D-Calif.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren , D-Calif.
Rep. Jerry McNerney , D-Calif.
Rep. Jerrold Nadler , D-N.Y.
Rep. Grace Napolitano , D-Calif.
Rep. Chellie Pingree , D-Maine
Rep. Mark Pocan , D-Wis.
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard , D-Calif.
Rep. Raul Ruiz , D-Calif.
Rep. Kurt Schrader , D-Ore.
Rep. Carol Shea-Porter , D-N.H.
Rep. José Serrano , D-N.Y.
Rep. Adam Smith , D-Wash.
Rep. Darren Soto , D-Fla.
Rep. Mark Takano , D-Calif.
Rep. Bennie Thompson , D-Miss.
Rep. Juan Vargas , D-Calif.
Rep. Nydia Velázquez , D-N.Y.
Rep. Maxine Waters , D-Calif.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman , D-N.J.
Rep. Frederica Wilson , D-Fla.
Rep. John Yarmuth , D-Ky.
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