President Biden on Friday sharply criticized a new restrictive voting law passed in Georgia, accusing the state’s Republicans of rushing to enact an “un-American law to deny people the right to vote.”
“This law, like so many others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience,” Biden said in a statement issued by the White House Friday afternoon.
“This is Jim Crow in the 21st century. It must end. We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act,” he continued. Continue reading.