Attorney General Garland tells Alabama's Bloody Sunday service that voting rights are under attack [View all]

[BumRushDaShow]

Last edited Sun Mar 3, 2024, 07:40 PM - Edit history (4)

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