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President Joe Biden on Thursday blasted the landmark Supreme Court decision that ended affirmative action in college admissions - and said it is proof discrimination 'still exists in America'. 'This is not a normal court,' Biden said of the conservative-majority bench that ruled race-based admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina (UNC) are unconstitutional. 'I know today's court decision is a severe disappointment to so many people, including me, but we cannot let the decision be a permanent setback,' he said in remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. In two rulings on Thursday, the...

The reactions to the lopsided Brittney Griner/Viktor Bout swap are still coming in.Here’s Derek Maltz, former DEA Special Operations Director, talking with Fox News, describing the effort they made to put Bout in jail, what a danger he was to the world, and that he was convicted on serious terrorism charges. He notes that even the Obama administration got how serious this was and Joe Biden was the Vice President at the time, so he had to know what a danger Bout was to the world. “Putin has just established a new tool,” Maltz said, and others will “take advantage...

As a massive hurricane slammed into Florida on Wednesday evening, the President of the United States attended a fundraiser for the Democratic Governor’s Association. That followed a banner day where Joe Biden asked where a deceased congresswoman was at an event and got confused trying to exit a stage later at the White House. The optics of Biden hobnobbing with his party’s elite while people’s homes while devastation descended on the Sunshine State wasn’t lost on many observers. So what did the president talk about? If you guess that he ranted about threats to “democracy,” which is basically the one-note...