Biden to sign executive order aimed at increasing voting access

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President Biden on Sunday (TODAY!) will sign an executive order leveraging federal resources to protect and strengthen access to the ballot as Republican legislatures around the country seek to restrict voting rights in the wake of the 2020 election.

Biden will sign an order that will direct agencies to increase access to voter registration materials and reduce barriers to voting for certain groups, including military and overseas voters, Native Americans, people with disabilities and Native Americans.

The president on Sunday will also speak at the Martin and Coretta King Unity Breakfast to outline focus on voting rights. The order and speech come on the 56th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala. The violent clash between 600 civil rights marchers and white police officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965 served as a catalyst for the passage of the Voting Rights Act.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-to-sign-executive-order-aimed-at-increasing-voting-access/ar-BB1ekbeH?li=BB141NW3

[Auggie]

1. IMO protecting/strengthening voting rights is the second highest priority of 2021

[OnDoutside]

4. Exactly.

[BradAllison]

2. Good

Time to shove it up the GOP and the enablers asses.

[mucifer]

3. Awesome!! But, I bet gop litigates it all the way to the supreme court

[Celerity]

7. +1

the fuckers will fight to the death (literally)

[90-percent]

10. drunk history

that is to say, my memory on the recent SC history of the voting rights act is something like this:

A few years ago the SC determined that since racial discrimination in voting is a thing of the past and is totally gone now, many safeguards in the original Voting Rights act are no longer needed and therefore struck down.

Within milliseconds of this ruling Republic run states revised their voting laws to increase economic and racial discrimination and make it harder for Democratic leaning population groups vote.

-90% Jimmy

[Maxheader]

5. bustin winger b$&@s..

Gotta lurv it....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

6. Love how Biden is just DOING!

[Etherealoc1]

8. I hope it holds

Taken to the courts and who knows.

[groundloop]

9. This is all good.... but I don't believe an Executive Order can preempt a state law

In other words people who live in GOPer states with oppressive voting laws are fucked unless they overcome the obstacles put in their way and vote the bastards out of office.

[George II]

11. Damn, he puts one in the books and barely takes a breath and moves on to the next one!

Except for a brief speech hours after the bill passed yesterday, he just keeps moving forward.

He may well wind up as the most consequential President since LBJ.