Harris says to ‘really honor’ MLK’s legacy, voting rights legislation must be passed

Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday urged the Senate to “do its job” and pass voting rights legislation.

Harris marked Martin Luther King Jr Day. by making a virtual appearance at an event hosted by Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. In a clear message, Harris speak that to “really honor the human legacy we honor today, we must continue to fight for freedom to vote, for freedom for all.”

King pushed for “the freedom to be open to all others – the right to vote,” Harris continued, and that is now “under attack. In Georgia and across our nation, anti-government laws The voters that are being passed could make it more difficult for up to 55 million Americans to vote – 55 million Americans. That’s one out of six in our country.”

Freedom to vote: The John R. Lewis Act would expand access to vote and prevent voting restrictions from being enacted at the state level. In the last year, several Republican legislatures have passed strict voting restrictions, and Harris said now is not the time to be “smug or complicit. We must not give up and no concessions.”

Senate Republicans are blocking the voting rights law in the chamber, calling it a usurpation of power and last week, President Biden said he supported changing the filtering rules to address the issue. solve that problem. Two Democrats, Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia, was quick to protest.

Before Martin Luther King Jr Day. DC Peace Walk on Monday, King’s eldest son, Martin Luther King III, speak Democrats have been “successful with the infrastructure, which is a great thing. But we need you to use the same energy to make sure that all Americans have an unimpeded right to vote. hamper.”