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WASHINGTON - AUGUST 12: Academy Award-winning actor Sidney Poitier prepares to receive the Medal of Freedom to during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House August 12, 2009 in Washington, DC. Obama presented the medal, the highest civilian honor in the United States, to 16 recipients during the ceremony. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 13: People listen to speakers during the Brooklyn Liberation's Protect Trans Youth event at the Brooklyn Museum on June 13, 2021 in the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Brooklyn Liberation organized a march and rally as an emergency action response to legislation to restrict trans rights across 34 states. According to the Human Rights Campaign, there have been over 250 bills introduced in state legislatures aimed at the LGBTQ community in 2021. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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Rapid Covid-19 test kits await distribution for free to people receiving their Covid-19 vaccines or boosters at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, on January 7, 2022. - Los Angeles County reported more than 37,000 new coronavirus cases on January 6, breaking records again as a regional surge of the Omicron variant continues. (Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing to examine U.S.-Russia policy at the U.S. Capitol on December 7, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images)

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WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 07: U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) delivers remarks at a â€œVigil for Justiceâ€ on the steps to the U.S. Capitol on December 07, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress members, including the Congressional Black Caucus, attended the vigil to call on the Senate to consider the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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RICHMOND, VIRGINIA - JANUARY 18: Members of the "boogaloo boys" join other gun rights advocates in front of the State House as pro-gun supporters gather on January 18, 2021 in Richmond, Virginia. The event, which is taking place on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, is also known in Richmond as Lobby Day for the tradition of Virginia citizens coming to the capital to petition legislators at the start of the General Assembly session. This yearâ€™s event is taking place in the tense atmosphere following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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WATERFORD, MICHIGAN - OCTOBER 30: Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump watch a video featuring Fox host Sean Hannity ahead of Trump's arrival to a campaign rally at Oakland County International Airport on October 30, 2020 in Waterford, Michigan. With less than a week until Election Day, Trump and his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, are campaigning across the country. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

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