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Biden Calls on Lawyers to Be ‘New Heroes’

August 1, 2025 at 8:21 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on Thursday in which he also reflected on his more than five-decade career in politics and beginnings as a young lawyer,” the Chicago Tribune reports.

Said Biden: “It’s not enough to honor the heroes who came before us. We need new heroes now.”

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