President Biden receives Lifetime Achievement award at NAACP Detroit Fight for Freedom Fund dinner

President Joe Biden is presented with the James Weldon Johnson Lifetime Achievement Award by Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony at a Detroit NAACP dinner. (Pool photographer, Alex Brandon AP.)

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	President Joseph R. Biden is seen leaving Air Force One as he arrives in Detroit for the 69th Detroit branch NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday, May 19, 2024. (Photo by Montez Miller/ Tell Us Detrot)
	President Biden receives Lifetime Achievement award at NAACP Detroit Fight for Freedom Fund dinner By Jean Davis tellusdetroit.com DETROIT - At the Detroit branch NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit, Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony presents President Joe Biden with a lifetime achievement award on Sunday, May 19, 2024. “Reelect Kamala and me and a Democratic Congress and we will help the NAACP. We will sign the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom to Vote Act and make Roe v Wade the law of the land again,” he said, referring to several pieces of legislation that are core to Democrats’ platform. Voting and reproductive rights legislation faces a tough hurdle in a divided Congress. President Biden questioned whether former President Trump would appoint qualified individuals to the Supreme Court if re-elected. At the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner, Biden took aim at his political adversary for nominating justices to the Supreme Court who played a role in unfavorable rulings according to his perspective. In a political speech at the NAACP Freedom Fund Dinner on Sunday, Biden criticized his political opponent for nominating justices to the high court who contributed to decisions he disagrees with. “Trump openly encourages voter suppression and election subversion. He and his MAGA extremists gutted affirmative action,” Biden added. Biden requested the crowd to contemplate Trump's possible nominees for lifetime appointments, vowing to select impartial judges if reelected with Vice President Kamala Harris. “Let me ask you, if he’s reelected, who do you think you’ll put on a Supreme Court? Do you think he’ll put anybody who has a brain?” Biden said. “Folks, look: As Dr. King said, give us the ballot. We’ll put judges on the bench who will judge justly and do mercy.” During his time in office, Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court, which has a total of nine justices. Both Trump and political observers from different sides credit his picks with influencing some of the most significant legal decisions in recent years, such as the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a ruling that guaranteed the federal right to an abortion.