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It was a news-filled weekend, as the Los Angeles Lakers won their 17th NBA title.

Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott suffered a gruesome ankle injury that required surgery last

night, and Hurricane Delta left 400,000 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

U.S. 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's already being lauded by some as a new feminist icon, while others have attacked her family

faith and views. 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 Dowdna and Emmanuel Charpentier were honored for their work on the technology of genome editing.

Their discovery is known as CRISPR cast nine,-9, genetic scissors, a way of making

precise and specific alterations to the DNA contained in living cells. As biological chemist

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