In Selma, Biden puts spotlight back on "under assault" voting rights
President Biden paid tribute to the heroes of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.
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President Biden paid tribute to the heroes of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama.
“Selma is a reckoning. The right to vote... to have your vote counted is the threshold of democracy and liberty,” Biden told a crowd of several thousand people seated on one side of the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge. | Politics
The visit to Selma was a chance for Biden to speak directly to the current generation of civil rights activists. Many
President Biden on Sunday paid tribute to the heroes of Selma, Alabama’s Bloody Sunday, a turning point for voting rights nearly six decades ago, saying that the fundamental right to vote is “under assault” today in America.
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.