Garland, Harris mark Alabama’s Bloody Sunday in Selma
Posted on AllSides March 3rd, 2024
From The Center
Vice President Kamala Harris, Attorney General Merrick Garland and Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Ala.) were among the procession that marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., this weekend in remembrance of Bloody Sunday, when police attacked hundreds of civil rights protesters in 1965. In a speech early Sunday, Garland warned that the same voting rights the protesters demanded 59 years before were under attack again, referring to legal challenges to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. “Since those (court) decisions, there has been a dramatic increase in legislative measures...