Kamala Harris skipping South Carolina forum over Trump award

Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris is pulling out of a South Carolina criminal justice forum over organizers’ handling of President Donald Trump’s appearance.

Harris’ campaign said she would skip the 20/20 Bipartisan Justice Center event Saturday in objection to the group’s decision to give Trump its Bipartisan Justice Award, which she received in 2016.

“Donald Trump is a lawless President,” the California senator said in a statement. “Not only does he circumvent the laws of our country and the principles of our Constitution, but there is nothing in his career that is about justice, for justice, or in celebration of justice.”

Harris also posted the following statement on twitter:

I won't be complicit in papering over Trump's record. pic.twitter.com/eF27XpaRZy

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 26, 2019

[SOURCE: AP]

Barack Obama gives eulogy at Elijah Cummings funeral

Watch Former President Obama's full eulogy for longtime Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings in which he praised Cummings as an honorable man, as he spoke at his funeral Friday.

Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings' full speech at her husband Rep. Elijah Cummings' funeral

There were plenty of powerhouse speakers at Elijah Cummings funeral. There were great speeches by Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and a moving remembrance by a former Cumming's aide, Joe Alexander but the person to best honor the late congressman was his wife, Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings.

Watch her moving tribute below.

First African-American nominated for Delaware Supreme Court

On Thursday Delaware Governor John Carney nominated Tamika Montgomery-Reeves, the first African-American to serve on the state's supreme court.

Montgomery-Reeves, who was the first African-American vice chancellor or judge on the state's Court of Chancery, will join the state's top court if she is confirmed by the state's senate.
Montgomery-Reeves was confirmed to the Court of Chancery in 2016, joining the court from the Wilmington office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati where she focused on corporate governance and corporate litigation.

Delaware is one of only 13 states that has never had a non-white justice serve on its supreme court, according to a July study by The Brennan Center for Justice. The study used data dating back to 1960.

[SOURCE: YAHOO]

Former President Barack Obama to speak at Elijah Cumming's funeral

Former U.S. president Barack Obama is among those asked to speak on Friday at the late Congressman Elijah Cummings’ funeral.

Obama’s spokeswoman Katie Hill said in a statement late Wednesday that the former U.S. president was requested to speak by Cummings’ widow Maya Rockeymoore-Cummings.

“He will deliver remarks about the remarkable life and legacy of one of this country’s finest public servants,” Hill said in the statement.

Representative Cummings’ office released a list late Wednesday of the 10 pallbearers and 15 speakers slated for the funeral Friday at the New Psalmist Baptist Church in Cummings’ hometown of Baltimore.

Others asked to speak include former president Bill Clinton, former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.