Biden walks back ‘illegal’ comment, talks abortion in new interview

Joe Biden walked back his use of the term «illegal» when describing an undocumented migrant and doubled-down on his belief that the Supreme Court was wrong in its 2022 abortion access ruling during a recent interview.

Mr Biden sat down with MSNBC's «The Sunday Show» for a rare, wide-ranging interview just days after he gave the State of the Union address.

He refused to back down on his belief that the Supreme Court fumbled its 2022 Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health ruling.

“I think [the Supreme Court] made a wrong decision. I think they read the Constitution wrong. I think they made a mistake,” Mr Biden said.

Mr Biden said he found the Supreme Court's observation that women can vote to change the laws in their individual states if they want access to abortion services to be «insulting» and referenced it during his speech.

“They used the phrase that women can vote making change, if they want to,” Mr Biden said. “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.”

President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, on March 7, 2024

During his State of the Union address, Mr Biden told the Justices that «with all due respect, justices… you're about to realize just how much you got right [about women's ability to make change through voting].»

The president took a lashing of his own after he referred to an undocumented migrant as an «illegal» during the address. He told MSNBC that he regretted using that term.

“An undocumented person. And I shouldn’t have used