(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, MAR 7 - Joe Biden's harsh attack on republicans and their "all-out assault on the right to vote in state parliaments across the country", following the attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump fans.
"During the current legislative session, elected officials in 43 states have already introduced more than 250 bills to make it more difficult for Americans to vote. We can't let that happen," he says in the White House sneak peek of his 56-year video speech. of 'Bloody Sunday', the civil rights march in Selma, Alabama.
Biden then appealed to Congress to fully restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the law that specifically prohibited racial discrimination in voting.
"Those burning torches and crosses, the batons, the tear gas, the attack dogs, the laws and the unfair trials could not stop progress. The blood of John Lewis and hundreds of other brave and righteous souls who were killed in Selma that Sunday in 1965 , sanctified a noble battle ", Biden told Selma according to the anticipations of the White House.
Biden also recalled that "for African Americans, basic voting rights have been denied by white supremacists hiding both behind white hoods and out in the open in state parliaments and courts."
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