Hero’s casket a symbol of the death of democracy
The funeral of law-maker Elijah Cummings extolled his qualities of courage, compassion and integrity, in sharp contrast to those of Donald Trump and his enablers
On Friday morning, after lying in state on Capitol Hill, Elijah Cummings was buried near his home in Baltimore. The 68-year-old son of a sharecropper was the first black lawmaker in US history to be accorded the honour of a state funeral.
It was a fitting tribute for the political hero and civil-rights activist, a giant among the moral pygmies who thwarted his every move as chairman of the House Oversight Committee, one of the...
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