It was a news-filled weekend, as the Los Angeles Lakers won their seventeenth NBA title, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury that required surgery last night, and Hurricane Delta left four hundred thousand people without power yesterday. Now all eyes are on the Senate Judiciary Committee as it begins four days of hearings on President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the US Supreme Court.
In her opening statement, Judge Barrett is expected to state that “the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made by the political branches elected by and accountable to the People.” She will add, “I believe Americans of all backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our Constitution and laws as they are written. And I believe I can serve my country by playing that role.”
In other words, Judge Barrett would serve on the Supreme Court as a means of serving the people it serves.
Across coming days (and years, if confirmed by the Senate), she will need to continue embracing this commitment to servant leadership. She is already being lauded by some as a “new feminist icon,” while others have attacked her family, faith, and views.
A breakthrough that is revolutionizing science
Judge Barrett would make history as only the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court in our nation’s history. Similar history was made recently by the first two women to share the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were honored for their work on the technology of genome editing. Their discovery is known as CRISPR-Cas9…
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