Martin Luther King and Kamala’s family urge US Senate to work for suffrage

Descendants of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters rally in Washington

By John Wolf and Nathan Lane

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Descendants of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and his supporters rallied in Washington on Monday to demand passage of a bill to protect voters from racism.

As part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace Walk, members of the president’s family and more than 100 national and local civil rights groups demanded that Democrats and U.S. President Joe Biden cross the Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge in Washington. Bill to protect suffrage.

After a disappointing week for Democrats, Democrats who saw Biden head to Capitol Hill were strongly rejected by both – urging his Senate colleagues to change House rules to deal with Republican opposition. Veto power.

In a separate speech broadcast live at the late Reverend King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called on the Senate to act, saying efforts to restrict voting in some U.S. states could be even more difficult. Of the Americans.

“We should not be complacent or complicit,” Kamala Harris said. “We must not give up, we must not give up. We must continue to fight for the freedom of the vote, for the freedom of all, to truly respect the human tradition we celebrate today.

At a rally on Monday before the march, King’s son, Martin Luther King III, praised Democrats in Congress for passing a comprehensive infrastructure bill last year, but called for legislation to protect the right to vote.

King III, his wife Andrea Waters King and daughter Yolanda Renee King marched across the bridge.

“We need to make sure everyone in this country can go to the polls, vote, and ask for their votes,” said Lisa Munier, 53, of Washington, who joined the protesters.

The bill expands access to e-mail voting, strengthens federal oversight of elections in states with a history of racial discrimination, and tightens campaign funding rules. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.

New restrictions have come in the wake of the former’s misrepresentations https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-false-claims-debunked-2020-election-jan-6-riot-2022-01-06 2020 Election defeat is the result of widespread fraud Said President Donald Trump.

Chuck Schumer, a top Senate Democrat, said he would consider the bill on Tuesday, a delay from his previous plan to vote on the bill until Monday, a national holiday in King’s memory.

King III, his wife Andrea Waters King and their daughter Yolanda Renee King lead the procession.

Republicans, who hold half of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, have joined forces to oppose a bill that would be a discriminatory takeover. There is only one way for Biden and Schumacher to pass it: Senators Joe Munchin and Senator Kirsten Cinema, the centrist Democrats, need at least 60 senators to agree to most laws to change the House ban.

(Report by John Wolf in Washington and Nathan Lane in Wilton, Connecticut)

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