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Some days they make laws, and some days they break them. Five House Democrats were arrested Monday during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington.

Jul 31, 2020
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Some days they make laws, and some days they break them.
Five House Democrats were arrested Monday during a protest at the Sudanese embassy in Washington. The lawmakers — Reps. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), Donna Edwards (D-Md.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) and John Lewis (D-Ga.) — were demonstrating against the recent expulsion of 16 aid groups from the war-torn Darfur region, when they crossed a police line and were arrested. The Hillhas a bit more:
The Secret Service had established a perimeter around the embassy. The lawmakers and protest organizers deliberately crossed the line and refused three warnings to leave, a spokesman for Edwards said. [...]
Dan Weber, the Edwards spokesman, said the lawmakers are in the process of posting bail and should be out of jail this afternoon. They had hired defense attorney Laura Rhodes in advance of their arrests.
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