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Virginia Foxx: “If you swore to uphold the Constitution, then I assume you know what's in the First Amendment.”

On the recordJune 8, 2021
If you swore to uphold the Constitution, then I assume you know what's in the First Amendment.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Foxx asserts that Walsh should understand the First Amendment's protection of religious liberty.

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