In this May 29, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama awards former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday, July 16, 2019, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after suffering a stroke Monday. He was 99. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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