Because she would not remain silent or ignore the events of January 6th, Cheney's congressional colleagues stripped her of her leadership position in the GOP caucus. Everything that followed was his doing.” Cheney received numerous death threats after casting her vote in favor of impeachment, and yet refused to take the politically expedient course that most of her party embraced.

She stood against the lawlessness and violence of January 6th, and voted to impeach President Trump, concluding: 'The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.

When the President instead rejected the lawful, certified outcome of the election, she broke with most in her party, urged fidelity to the Constitution, and stood her ground with honor and conviction.

After the election, however, when President Trump falsely claimed that the election was stolen, she repeatedly called on the President to respect the rulings of the courts and his oath of office, and to publicly support the peaceful transfer of power. She has been one of the most conservative members within the Republican Conference. House of Representatives, and the highest-ranking Republican woman in the history of the House. Prior to the election in 2020, Representative Liz Cheney was elected by her colleagues to be chair of the House Republican Conference, making her the third-ranking Republican in the U.S. Her piece segues into the story and factors behind Haley’s decision to lower the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House. Garre’s powerful essay opened with the story about a racial profiling incident endured by Haley’s father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, when she was a child. The first female governor in South Carolina history, Haley is the daughter of Indian immigrants. This year’s submissions came from Canada, India, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in addition to the U.S. students under the age of 20 enrolled in a high school correspondence/GED program in any of the 50 states, the District of Columbia or the U.S. high school students in grades 9 to 12 attending public, private, parochial or home schools U.S.

The JFK Profile in Courage Essay Contest is open to U.S. “When I submitted my essay, I was thinking it was good, but I wasn’t expecting that I would win something.” It tells the story of Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, and her decision to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House grounds. Garre’s essay, titled “Moving Forward: Nikki Haley,” was the only piece selected from the state of Massachusetts. Kennedy Profile in Courage Essay Contest, the JFK Library announced recently. CHELMSFORD - Akhila Garre, a rising senior at Chelmsford High School, received honorable mention honors - placing among the top 25 out of 2,474 submissions - in the John F.

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