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Speaking at the White House, Joe Biden condemned the supreme court’s conservative justices for their decision released today against race-based admissions.
“In case after case, including recently, just a few years ago in 2016, the court has affirmed and reaffirmed this view that colleges could use race, not as a determining factor for admission, but as one of the factors among many in deciding who to admit,” the president said, adding that “the court once again walked away from decades of precedent.”
“The court has effectively ended affirmative action in college admissions and I strongly, strongly disagree with the court’s decision,” he said.
There are “still a lot of really good Republicans” in the Senate, Joe Biden said during his interview on MSNBC.
Biden said that six Republican senators have come to him since he was elected “to tell me, ‘Joe, I agree with you but if I’m seen doing it, I’ll lose a primary’”. He added:
I’m an eternal optimist. I still think there’s going to come a moment when they’re going to be able to break.
During his interview on MSNBC, Joe Biden admitted he knew his polling numbers “are not good” but argued that “they were the same way when I ran and won”.
Biden said he had “great faith” in the American people and that it was “important that they know that my value set is very different than the new Maga Republican party”.
He added:
Everybody thought I was gonna get clobbered in the primary. I got 80 million votes in the last election.
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Joe Biden refused to say whether he knew ahead of time about Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plans to march on Moscow.
“Every president is amazed that America is the lead in the world”, he told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace.
He said he had focused on holding Nato together and on expanding the alliance to make sure that “the most significant invasion since world war two does not succeed”.
In an interview on MSNBC, Joe Biden was asked about a report that said senior officials at the justice department resisted investigating the possible involvement of Donald Trump and his associates in the January 6 Capitol attack.
Biden said he had made a commitment that he would “not in any way interfere” with the justice department, adding that he had “not spoken one single time with the attorney general on any specific case”.
He said he had “faith that the justice department will move in a direction that is consistent with the law”.
Joe Biden has said the supreme court has “gone out of its way” to “unravel basic rights” following its ruling on Thursday to strike down affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina and Harvard.
In an interview on MSNBC, Biden was asked what he meant at a press conference earlier today when he said the supreme court was “not a normal court”. He said:
What I meant by that is it has done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history.
He said he found this court “so out of sorts with the basic value system of the American people”.
Across the board, the vast majority of American people don’t agree with a lot of the decisions this court has made.
Biden said that although he believes the conservative majority on the court “may do too much harm”, he opposes expanding the court because it will “politicize the court forever in a way that is not healthy”.
Biden says he knows his polling numbers “are not good”, but argues that “they were the same way when I ran”.
Everybody thought I was going to get clobbered in a primary.
Biden says he’s “not spoken one single time” with the attorney general “on any specific case”.
Biden says he thinks if we start the process of trying to expand the court “we’re going to politicize it in a way that’s not healthy”.
Biden says he thinks it’s a “mistake” to expand the court. He says:
What I’ve done is I have appointed 136 judges, and … I picked people who are from various backgrounds.
We’ve appointed more women to the appellate courts, Black women to the appellate courts, than every other president in American history.
Biden says the vast majority of American people don’t agree with the supreme court’s ruling.
He says it “finds it so out of sorts with the basic value system of the American people”.
Biden is asked what he meant when he said earlier today that the supreme court is “not a normal court”.
Biden says the court has “done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court”, pointing to its ruling last year to overturn Roe v Wade.
Joe Biden will in a few minutes appear from MSNBC’s New York City studios for a live interview with anchor Nicolle Wallace.
While Biden often responds to questions from reporters as he comes and goes from the White House or at the tail end of his speeches, he has done few press conferences compared with his recent predecessors, according to the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Follow along here as the Guardian’s Léonie Chao-Fong covers the interview live.
Source: US Politics - theguardian.com
