Biden marks 60 years since Civil Rights Act with new proposal
Prominent Democrats from across Texas converged on the University of Texas Monday, July 29, to hear remarks from President Joe Biden . Several local officials – including Mayor Kirk Watson , Travis County Judge Andy Brown, and U.S. Reps. Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett – welcomed Biden as he landed in Austin on Air Force One.
The president was in town to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the landmark legislation championed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The visit was originally planned for July 15, back when Biden was still a presidential candidate, but was postponed following the attempted assassination of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump on July 13.
Before Biden spoke Monday, the LBJ Library hosted a program that featured Bryan Cranston reading excerpts from the speech LBJ delivered in 1964 to celebrate passage of the Civil Rights Act . U.S. Ambassador Andrew Young, who organized along Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, introduced the president.Biden described the Civil Rights Act as “a defining moment” in American history.
But most of the president’s speech focused on dangers to our democracy: “There are no kings in America,” Biden said. To address these threats, Biden laid out a suite of reforms to the Supreme Court of the United States which he had announced earlier Monday: a set of binding ethics rules for the court, term limits for justices, and an amendment to the U.S. Constitution meant to address the recent SCOTUS ruling that holds U.S. presidents are immune from criminal prosecution for “official acts” committed while in office.
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