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Some say ... it doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember.

the events of Juneteenth are of monumental importance to America's story.

Still today, some say to me and you that this doesn't deserve to be a federal holiday. They don't want to remember...the moral stain of slavery.

As a child growing up in Texas, she and her family would celebrate Juneteenth. On Juneteenth 1939, when she was 12 years old, a white mob torched her family home. But such hate never stopped her, any more than it stopped the vast majority…

Under President Joe Biden, the United States intervened to also argue that the Tennessee law violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.

They were not 'peaceful' — despite minimal accounts of physical violence by protesters, and negligible accounts of property damage.

you can see and feel and hear the anger, the disappointment, and the concern for the future of our country. Senator Alex Padilla is probably one of the first people that took time to sit down with me as a freshman Senator to prepare me for…

having just viewed a video of my friend and colleague Senator Alex Padilla being manhandled, thrown to the ground, and handcuffed after identifying himself as Senator Alex Padilla and attempting to ask a question of Secretary of Homeland…

Let me be clear: I made the decisions during my presidency.

I made the decisions about the pardons, executive orders, legislation, and proclamations.

This is nothing more than a distraction by Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans...

This day is the 10th anniversary of the loss of my son Beau, who spent a year in Iraq. And to be honest, it's a hard day.