In Selma, Biden stresses voting rights in face of divided Congress
SELMA, Ala. — President Biden came to this seminal site of the civil rights movement — one that lead to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965 — to try to inject urgency into changing the country’s voting rights laws once more.
Standing near the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where on March 7, 1965, marchers advocating for voting rights were attacked by police in a day that has become known as “Bloody Sunday,” Biden said that the right to vote “was under assault” by a conservative Supreme Court, a host of state legislatures, and those who continue to deny the 2020 presidential election results.
“As I come here in commemoration, not for show, Selma is a reckoning,” Biden said. “The right to vote, to have your vote counted — is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it, anything’s possible. Without it, without that, right nothing is possible.”
Biden is attempting to elevate an issue that he unsuccessfully fought for since the start of his presidency, channeling evocative images to urge Congress to pass voting rights changes despite hardened political divisions on Capitol Hill.
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