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From Lawmakers, A Little Civil Disobedience

By | 04.27.09 | 2:58 pm

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 More…