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Biden signs voting rights order on 'Bloody Sunday' anniversary. Here's what it does Bailey Aldridge, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.) Mar. 7—President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting access — marking the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, Alabama. The order, which Biden discussed at the Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King Unity Breakfast, will work to expand access to voter registration and information, aim to increase access to voting and analyze barriers to voting, among other things, according to a news release from the ...

On this day in 1965, state troopers beat and tear-gassed hundreds of peaceful protestors crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The protestors were seeking justice and to ensure their right to vote would not be denied. At the head of the march were former Congressman John Lewis and Rev. Hosea Williams. As the troopers advanced with clubs raised, the group knelt in prayer. The images of protestors, bloody and bruised, flashing on television screens across the nation spurred Congress to pass, and President Johnson to sign into law, the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Congressman Lewis’ ...

Biden signs voting rights order for anniversary of Selma’s 1965 ‘Bloody Sunday’ march Updated Mar 07, 2021; Posted Mar 07, 2021 US Vice President Joe Biden helps lead the annual crossing of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, commemorating Bloody Sunday, the violent 1965 clash between law enforcement and protestors on the historic bridge during a march for voting rights, Sunday, March 03, 2013, in Selma, Ala. Vasha Hunt/vhunt@al.com ORG XMIT: ALBIN101AP Facebook Share Biden also signed an executive order aimed at expanding voting rights access. “Today, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I a...

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:     Section 1.  Purpose.  The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy.  Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties with voter registration, lack of election information, and barriers to access at polling places.  ...

Six or nine months from now, when the child credit needs to be extended, “pro-family” Republicans will be unified against it. Democrats need to be savage in their attacks on the GOP for that. I’m grumpy about the minimum wage, (and that fight isn’t over), but I think Biden, Harris, and the team’s strategy folks are teeing up a powerful economic message, and total Republican opposition is really risky given the 70% across the board public support. And the profligate waste of the Trump-Ryan tax cut helps wipe out all the deficit scold idiocy that is no-doubt coming.