Biden will speak about the 'continued fight for voting rights' at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, the White House said
President Joe Biden speaks to the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference, March 1, 2023, in Baltimore.There, Biden will speak at the Edmund Pettus Bridge -- where in 1965 hundreds of civil rights marchers were attacked by police. The violence, which sparked national outrage, marked a turning point in the movement and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
in January and in his State of the Union, despite legislation faltering during his first two years in the Oval Office. "In America, we must protect the right to vote, not suppress that fundamental right. We honor the results of our elections, not subvert the will of the people. We must uphold the rule of the law and restore trust in our institutions of democracy," Biden said during his State of the Union last month.
"Today, we stand on this bridge at a different time. We again, however, find ourselves caught in between injustice and justice, between disappointment and determination, still in a fight to form a more perfect union," Harris said. "And nowhere is that more clear than when it comes to the ongoing fight to secure the freedom to vote."
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