Attorney General Garland tells Alabama's Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are under attack
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Source: AP
Updated 11:47 AM EST, March 3, 2024
SELMA, Ala. (AP) -- Attorney General Merrick Garland told parishioners at a Selma church service commemorating the 59th anniversary of the attack by Alabama law officers on Civil Rights demonstrators that voting rights are endangered in much of the nation.
Garland told a Bloody Sunday service that decisions by the Supreme Court and lower courts since 2006 have weakened the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was passed in the wake of the police attack. The demonstrators were beaten by officers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965, as they tried to march across Alabama in support of voting rights. Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the annual march across the bridge on Sunday afternoon.
The march and Garland's speech are among dozens of events during the Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee, which began Thursday and culminates Sunday. Garland said the rulings have endangered the voting rights of Black Americans. "Since those (court) decisions, there has been a dramatic increase in legislative measures that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect representatives of their choice," Garland told worshippers at Selma's Tabernacle Baptist Church, the site of one of the first mass meetings of the voting rights movement.
"Those measures include practices and procedures that make voting more difficult; redistricting maps that disadvantage minorities; and changes in voting administration that diminish the authority of locally elected or nonpartisan election administrators," he said. "Such measures threaten the foundation of our system of government." Harris will speak at a rally after the march.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/bloody-sunday-march-selma-alabama-civil-rights-dd03b6cc8e68e42ac89e1c9d641c12b9
Am adding these resources as FYI about a Department of many agencies and 115,000 employees for those who are unaware -
Link to DOJ Civil Rights Division site - https://www.justice.gov/crt
The most recent voting-related suit's disposition - Court Finds That Arizona Voter Registration Provisions Violate Federal Law
DOJ Voting Info site - https://www.justice.gov/voting
Link to DOJ's additional Voting-related PRESS RELEASES - https://www.justice.gov/voting/news
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and there were a couple people who spoke before she did (with some breaks in between).
There is a ceremony annually at that location and Pres. Biden was there for last year's ceremony -
VP Harris was there in 2022 -
I think there was a "virtual" crossing (although people were still out there) in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Remember, for us current or former federal employees, people like Garland are "GS-1000s" - the "god-level" appointees who come and go with the cycling of Presidents. Those doing the work are the civil servants and fixating on the appointees, with the idea that they are somehow micromanaging their Departments and doing everything within all their subordinate agencies (and in his case, DOJ is also over ATF, the Bureau of Prisons, the FBI, DEA, US Marshals, etc.,) will quickly lead to unnecessary headaches.
In addition, since most federal agencies have no "enforcement authority" (only "regulatory" ), DOJ lawyers become the "enforcers" (in court) for the federal agencies (for court filings like seizures, injunctions, and all kinds of other warrants).
The DOJ is doing its part to pressure all parties to not try another Arizona or Georgia, or they'll FAFO.
Thank you! 
While the (arguably) main destroyers of voting rights and money laundering have gotten a UUGE hall pass.
Of course, I can't prove these allegations, but someone ...
as deputy assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division of the DOJ, Garland supervised the high-profile domestic-terrorism cases, including the Oklahoma City bombing, Ted Kaczynski (also known as the "Unabomber" ), and the Atlanta Olympics bombings.
Go ahead all day and all night. Some of DU need History 101. 
Because you're selling old, stale arguments, factually and repeatedly debunked here for months.
"Done good"? Any JoeBlow lawyer could do that.
ANY politician -- Adam Schiff? pfffffft! -- who hasn't worked in the Criminal Division of DOJ can cast doubt.
Respectfully disagreeing is no substitute for informed disagreeing. By innuendo it's disrespectful of this president's and AG's judgments -- people in high, deep, and wide levels of information processing and decisionmaking. Have a good night.
