Descendants of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and their supporters began marching on Washington on Monday to urge President Joe Biden's Democrats to pass a bill protecting voting rights.
, the King family and more than 100 national and local civil rights groups planned to march across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge into downtown Washington.
The bill would expand access to mail-in voting, strengthen federal oversight of elections in states with a history of racial discrimination and tighten campaign finance rules. Democratic supporters say it is needed to counter a wave of new restrictions on voting passed in Republican-led states that election observers say would make it harder for minority and low-income voters to cast ballots.that his 2020 election defeat was the result of widespread fraud.
Republicans, who hold half the 100 seats in the Senate, are united in opposition to the bill, which they contend is a partisan power grab.
“I wish it was drawn earlier, but I think a line in the sand has been drawn and you’re either with us or against us," Townsend said.
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