‘This Is Not a Normal Court’: Biden Reacts to Supreme Court’s Decision

President Joe Biden on Thursday responded to the Supreme Court’s decision to effectively end affirmative action in college admissions, criticizing the court for breaking with decades of precedent.
“I strongly disagree with the court’s decision because affirmative action is so misunderstood,” Biden said at the White House before departing for New York.
“Many people wrongly believe that affirmative action allows unqualified students to be admitted ahead of qualified students. This is not how college admissions work,” he said.
Biden continued by saying that, in order to get into college, prospective students must first meet the school’s initial requirements such as test scores and GPA. The students are “then and only then” chosen for the class depending on a number of factors, one of which is their race, he noted….}