Biden says he regrets referring to 'an illegal' and defends direct criticism of Supreme Court in State of the Union

 

 

 

Biden says he regrets referring to 'an illegal' and

defends direct criticism

of Supreme Court in State of the Union

 

President Joe Biden in a wide-ranging interview with MSNBC

on Saturday defended his direct criticism

of the Supreme Court for its 2022

decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s

Health and said that he regrets

having referred to an

undocumented immigrant as an “illegal.”

“I think they made a wrong decision.

I think they read the Constitution wrong.

I think they made a mistake,”

Biden told Jonathan Capehart, host of MSNBC’s “

The Saturday Show” and “The Sunday Show,”

during an exclusive interview on the

campaign trail in Georgia.

He echoed remarks he made during his

State of the Union address on Thursday when he addressed

Supreme Court justices in the room,

telling them,

“With all due respect, justices ... you’re

about to realize just how much you got right”

about women’s electoral power.

“They used the phrase that

women can vote making change, if they want to,”

Biden told Capehart on Saturday, adding,

“I found that somewhat insulting,

the idea that they don’t think [women] can.

Women are speaking now.

They spoke out in 2022. They spoke out in 2024 —

2020. This is what’s going to happen.

And I was just making clear,

women speak up. This is going to change.”

Biden’s campaign also doubled down on his

attacks on former President Donald Trump

and the Supreme Court justices he

appointed in a statement shared first with NBC News