“Congratulations to Georgia and the Georgian state legislature for changing its electoral rules and regulations,” Trump said in a statement through his Save America political action committee. “They learned from the sadness of the 2020 presidential election that it will not be possible to let it happen again. Too bad these changes could not have been made sooner! ”
But Democrats argue he is targeting black voters who came into force last fall and back in January to support his party’s candidates.
Joe Biden: The Hill’s Morning Report: Biden changes the filibuster’s HIV to squeeze Biden and Democrats on the Sanders border creates a new headache for Biden on taxes MORE on Friday he harshly condemned the law as “Jim Crow in the 21st Century.”
“It’s Jim Crow in the 21st century. It has to end, “Biden said.” We have a moral and constitutional obligation to act. “
Georgia’s new law already faces a legal challenge from a civil rights group, which argues in its filing that the changes illegally suppress voters’ rights in violation of constitutional protections and the Rights of Rights Act. vote of 1965.
Meanwhile, House Democrats passed the People’s Bill earlier this month, a bill on voting rights and electoral reform that would facilitate voting by requiring states to offer postal votes, enacting the registration of the voting the same day and extending the advance vote.
Republicans have denounced the legislation as an extension of state rights.