Biden now advocates for a man sentenced to prison to choose to be incarcerated in a women's prison.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ovc0BAUYo&feature=youtu.be</ref>
Biden now advocates for a man sentenced to prison to choose to be incarcerated in a women's prison.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ovc0BAUYo&feature=youtu.be</ref>
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During the 1993 Senate confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee [[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]], Chairman Biden of the Senate Judiciary Committee made a commented about the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), an organization committed to preserving Confederate statues with ties to the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
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Biden began his remarks by referring to a speech made on the Senate floor by Sen. Howell Heflin (D-Ala.), who was speaking in support of efforts by Sen. [[Carol Moseley Braun]] (D-Ill.) to deny renewal of a Confederate flag design patent to the UDC.
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{{quotebox-float|“I, too, heard that speech and, for the public listening to this, the senator made a very moving and eloquent speech. As a son of the Confederacy, acknowledging that it was time to change and yield to a position that Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun raised on the Senate floor, not granting a federal charter to an organization made up of many fine people who continue to display the Confederate flag as a symbol."<ref>https://www.breitbart.com/2020-election/2019/12/10/nolte-watch-joe-biden-defend-kkk-linked-confederate-group-as-fine-people/</ref>