Happy Friday! Are you one of the millions of Americans who suffer from sleep apnea? You’re in company with President Joe Biden, whose CPAP machine left indentations on his face earlier this week and revealed his use of the device to the world.

Up to Speed

• The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that colleges and universities cannot use affirmative action based on race to grant admissions. “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the 6-3 conservative majority. “In other words, the student must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual—not on the basis of race.” President Joe Biden rebuked the decision, saying the country could not allow the court’s ruling to be “the last word” on the issue.
• Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration allocated $92 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds to a highway interchange project that benefits a top political donor, Mori Hosseini. The project expedites, by more than a decade, Hosseini’s plans to develop the nearby land into a residential and shopping district. According to the Washington Post, Hosseini has had a close relationship with DeSantis, including gifting a golf simulator to the governor’s mansion, repeatedly allowing DeSantis to use his private plane, and indirectly donating hundreds of thousands of dollars to boost DeSantis’ 2022 reelection campaign.
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is surging in the polls—but only among Republicans. Kennedy’s electoral support among Democrats has hovered between 8 and 12 percentage points, while his net favorability in the party has fallen considerably, per the Washington Post. 
• House Republicans are pushing for impeachment proceedings against President Biden and members of his administration, including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and Attorney General Merrick Garland. All three are slated to provide testimony in the coming months, according to CNN. The House has several ongoing probes into Biden’s conduct, but some GOP members want a prompt vote to impeach the president. Others are less eager, with Republican Rep. Jeff Van Drew stating, “Before you impeach a president, there is a process of fact-gathering.”

In Kyiv, Pence Calls for ‘Strong American Support’ of Ukraine

Former Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to Ukraine Thursday, meeting with the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, and receiving briefings from Ukrainian officials on the state of the ongoing war with Russia.

Pence is the first Republican presidential candidate this cycle to make a trip to Ukraine, and it comes more than a year after he traveled to the Ukraine-Poland border to meet refugees from the Russian invasion. At a time when the GOP field appears split on whether America should continue to provide military aid to the Ukrainians, Pence’s appearance allowed him to articulate a vision of support for Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression.

“I believe America’s the leader of the free world,” Pence told NBC News, which first reported on his trip. “But coming here just as a private citizen—being able to really see firsthand the heroism of the Ukrainian soldiers holding the line in those woods, see the heroism of the people here in Irpin that held back the Russian army, to see families whose homes were literally shelled in the midst of an unconscionable and unprovoked Russian invasion—just steels my resolve to do my part.”