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WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) this evening will play the role of Rosa Parks in "Let Freedom Ring," a play about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, at the Howard University School of Law Moot Court Room (2900 Van Ness St. NW), from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. The play, featuring a cast of notable local judges and politicians, was written by Paul Handy, Administrative Law Judge for the D.C. Office of Administrative Hearings, and is presented by District 4 of the National Association of Women Judges.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) today issued a proposed rule to implement Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton's (D-DC) recently enacted Hatch Act National Capital Region Parity Act, which, for the first time, authorizes OPM to permit federal employees who live in the District of Columbia to run for partisan political office in local D.C. elections as independents. A 60-day notice and comment period is required for the proposed rule.
Today is April 4th, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 45 years ago. It is a sign that we are still living in the King era, that unlike other great figures in our history, his death is noted in addition to his birth in January. April 4th will fade with time as April 14, 1865, the day of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, has.
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathan Rucker, home on leave from Japan, and his mother, met with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today. They discussed how one family helped change federal law to recognize the District of Columbia's flag and D.C.'s servicemembers and veterans. CSSN Rucker, a D.C. native and graduate of Roosevelt High School, said his goal is to be a career naval officer.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that U.S. Navy Seaman Jonathon Rucker, a D.C. native and graduate of the District's Roosevelt High School, who experienced the failure to raise his city's flag at a military ceremony, will meet with Norton tomorrow, Wednesday, April 3, 2013, at noon in 2136 Rayburn House Office Building, during his leave in D.C. after serving in Japan. Norton will have press availability for interviews with Rucker following their meeting.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Office of Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced today that Norton would introduce legislation when Congress returns from recess next week to subject the salaries of members of Congress to any future sequestration, or automatic, across-the-board spending cuts. Under the 1985 law that established the sequestration process, certain federal programs, activities and projects, such as Social Security benefits, are expressly exempt from the across-the-board spending cuts. The law also specifically exempts the President's salary.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said today that D.C. residents will be among the first Americans to benefit if the Supreme Court rules that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. Norton, a member of the Supreme Court bar and tenured Georgetown University law professor, said that she is encouraged that the gay plaintiff may prevail in the DOMA case because the federal government has always deferred to state marriages in the past.
The District of Columbia, along with nine states, did not wait for the Supreme Court to do the right thing. We passed our own marriage equality law in 2009. Yet some would use D.C. and the handful of marriage equality states against the majority of LGBT Americans to counsel a go-slow approach to recognizing the fundamental right to marry. But the majority of LGBT Americans live in states that have already rushed to take away their right to marry at the highest level – their state constitutions.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today called Ketanji Brown Jackson to congratulate her on her confirmation by the Senate to become a U.S. district court judge in the District of Columbia. Jackson, who is currently Vice Chair of the U.S. Sentencing Commission, now becomes the first African American woman appointed to the district court in D.C. in 32 years, and only the second to ever serve. Norton recommended her to President Obama.