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U.S. President Joe Biden marked the 58th anniversary of the 1965 voting rights march in Selma, Ala., that came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.” In a speech, he said that he would not “let a filibuster obstruct the sacred right to vote.”

The president criticized the U.S. Supreme Court for “gutting” the voting rights act and condemned the Alabama state legislature for a new congressional map that the Department of Justice has argued violates the Voting Rights Act and discriminates against Black voters.

Bloody Sunday, a seminal moment in the civil rights movement, led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act nearly 60 years ago. After marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, demonstrators protesting against discrimination were attacked by state troopers after they passed over the county line.

Biden also spoke about his efforts to pass police reform legislation and said his administration would pass a new assault weapons ban.

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