Attorney General Merrick Garland pledged to challenge what he called voting restrictions implemented by Republican lawmakers that he said were “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.”
Garland spoke alongside Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday in Selma, Alabama, at the city’s 59th anniversary of the 1965 civil rights event dubbed “Bloody Sunday,” the day when Alabama police officers beat up voting rights demonstrators protesting in 1965. There, Garland brought up the history of black voting rights, claiming that the “right to vote is still under attack.”
“There are many things that are open to debate in America,” Garland said Sunday in front of the Tabernacle Baptist Church. “One thing that must not be open for debate is the right of all eligible citizens to vote and to have their vote counted.”
Garland has said that Supreme
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