'You're already changing the world': Biden tapes remarks for Marjory Stoneman Douglas graduation
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President Joe Biden delivered a taped graduation message at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where students who were freshmen during a mass shooting three years ago graduated on Tuesday.
"Three years ago, your lives and the lives of this community changed in an instant. And this class lost a piece of its soul. You've been tested in ways no young person should ever have to face," Biden said in remarks taped in the East Room. The President said: "From a freshman year, a year of unspeakable loss, to a junior and senior year upended by a pandemic. But the story of this class and the Parkland community isn't just a story of pain. It's a story of resilience. Turning pain into purpose. Darkness to light. This is a legacy you're building. The legacy you'll continue to build."Elected officials, Jewish advocacy groups and civil rights leaders are vowing to “push back” against the message of a White nationalist group that staged a march last week near downtown Columbus, Ohio, calling the demonstration an act of hate unwelcome in their community – and the United States more broadly.
Senate Democrats have confirmed some of President Joe Biden’s picks for the federal bench this week in the face of President-elect Donald Trump’s calls for a total GOP blockade of judicial nominations – in part because several Republicans involved with the Trump transition process have been missing votes.