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Joe BidenBiden will sign an executive order with the aim of increasing access to Myanmar’s military votes carrying out violent nighttime attacks., in comments prepared for the Martin & Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast on Sunday, is asking Congress to restore parts of the voting rights law overturned by the Supreme Court in 2013.
“In 2013, the United States Supreme Court destroyed the Voting Rights Act, maintaining that times have changed and that blatant voter discrimination was rare, unlike the attack that was taking place on the ground,” said Biden. “The late Justice [Ruth Bader] Ginsburg wrote that the decision was like ‘throwing your umbrella out in a storm’. Today, we have a hailstorm, not a rainstorm. “
Biden will also welcome the unprecedented turnout seen in 2020, despite the coronavirus pandemic, but will condemn both January 6 riots President Trump
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The president’s comments come on the 56thº anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when Alabama state troops used tear gas and beat up peaceful civil rights protesters on the Edmund Pettus bridge in Selma in 1965. The move to restore the Voting Rights Act takes its name from the late civil rights leader, Rep. John Lewis
John Lewis lawyers warn that restrictive bills could end Georgia’s record attendance on ‘Bloody Sunday’, which will be celebrated for the first time without John Lewis Democrats worrying that the Senate will be the cemetery on Biden’s agenda MOST (D-Ga.), Who suffered fractures to the skull in the incident. President Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law that August.
“A few days before he passed away, Jill and I spoke to John, Congressman Lewis. But instead of responding to our concerns about him, ‘How are you, John’, he asked us to stay focused on the work that was not done to heal and unite this nation around what it means to be an American, ”he said. Biden at breakfast. “This is the truth of God. John would not talk about his pending death or his concerns. He said that we just have to do this. “
Biden is also expected to take executive action on access to voting on Sunday, which will lower election barriers for groups such as Native Americans, people with disabilities, the military and foreign voters.