Vice President Kamala Harris, at an event for the anniversary of Martin Luther King's monument in Washington, vows to keep fighting for voting access.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday sharply criticized Republicans for blocking a bill that would have created minimum standards for elections and vowed Democrats would not end their fight to expand voting access.
Speaking at a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of the memorial’s dedication, Harris touted two bills that she asserted would ensure the broadest expansion of voting rights since the 1960s. She said such legislation was needed to counter Republican-led efforts at the state level to curtail the victories Black activists had won.
Republicans filibustered the legislation, and it failed to meet the 60-vote threshold needed to end debate in advance of a floor vote. It marked theSuch Republican efforts come as former President Trump has continued to peddle his falsehood-filled campaign that the 2020 election had been stolen, and as more than a dozen Republican-controlled states have passed laws limiting voting access.
from the Justice Department or a federal court before changing practices that might affect voting rights.