In Selma, Biden says right to vote remains under assault
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March 6, 2023
PETE MAROVICH, New York Times
President Joe Biden walks with civil rights activists across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during a commemoration of the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, on March 5, 2023.
SELMA, Ala. - President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma's ''Bloody Sunday'' to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionizing a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law.
''Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote ... to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty. With it anything's possible,'' Biden told a crowd of several thousand people seated on one side of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge, named for a reputed Ku Klux Klan leader.
"This fundamental right remains under assault. The conservative Supreme Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act over the years. Since the 2020 election, a wave of states and dozens and dozens of anti-voting laws fueled by the 'Big Lie' and the election deniers now elected to office," he said.
https://www.startribune.com/in-selma-biden-says-right-to-vote-remains-under-assault/600256340/
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