WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., has denied a request for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson to lie in honor in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office has denied a request to have the late Rev. Jesse Jackson lie in honor in the United States Capitol Rotunda due to precedents that such honors are usually only desig...

One of the sources told CNN that the decision to reject the request to lie in honor – which had been made on behalf of Jackson’s family – was in keeping with precedent and was not political.