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‘Without Any Fear or Favor’: Amy Coney Barrett Vows to Uphold Constitution at Supreme Court Swearing-in Ceremony


“Amy Coney Barrett vowed to remain independent of external political pressures and her own policy preferences as she spoke about preserving the Constitution during a ceremonial Supreme Court swearing-in event,” Jerry Dunleavy reports for the Washington Examiner.
 
“I love the Constitution and the democratic republic that it establishes—and I will devote myself to preserving it,” Justice Barrett said.
 
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“Much like President Ronald Reagan, Trump rebuilt the military (which the Obama-Biden administration depleted), and then used this potential firepower and his outsized personality to forge peace through strength.” Following a series of peace deals across the Middle East, “in foreign affairs, America is better off now than it was four years ago,” Deroy Murdock writes for Fox News.
“Last week, some fantastic news from the science world should’ve given full-time-schooling advocates real hope. Instead, officials are signaling that we may never return to full in-person learning . . . The rest of the world has prioritized children and education and opened schools full-time. It’s an embarrassment that America’s major cities have no plan to do the same,” Karol Markowicz writes in the New York Post.
“Democrats and Republicans alike can agree on one thing: prescription drug prices are unacceptably high. Predictably, however, we cannot seem to agree on a proper solution to this urgent issue. The Trump administration has, thankfully, kickstarted efforts and approved record numbers of generic drugs while simultaneously lowering overall prescription drug prices by 13 percent,” Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) writes for The Hill.


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