Biden Plans To Back Filibuster Changes To Pass Voting Rights Bill
Newsy
President Biden plans to renew his push for congressional action to protect voting rights in a speech in Georgia.
President Joe Biden will use a speech in Georgia to endorse changing Senate filibuster rules that have stalled voting rights legislation, saying it's time to choose "democracy over autocracy." But some civil rights groups won't be there, in protest of what they say is administration inaction.
President Biden on Tuesday will pay tribute to civil rights battles past — visiting Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, where the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once held forth from the pulpit, and placing a wreath at the crypt of King and his wife, Coretta Scott King — before turning to today's challenge.
With Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer setting up Martin Luther King Jr. Day as the deadline to either pass voting legislation or consider revising the rules, the president is expected to evoke the memories of the U.S. Capitol riot a year ago in more forcefully aligning himself with the effort.
