Biden delivers voting rights address at Selma calling for restoring Voting Rights Act

President Biden delivers a major address at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on the 58th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when state troopers attacked civil rights marchers in 1965, catalyzing the Voting Rights Act. Biden calls on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act, gutted by the Supreme Court in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) and Brnovich v. DNC (2021). Biden issues an executive order expanding access to voter registration and making it easier for federal agencies to assist eligible Americans in registering to vote. The appearance is one of multiple Biden visits to Selma, which he frames as embodying the unfinished work of civil rights.