Saturday, March 27, 2021

Biden: Georgia voting restriction law is 'atrocity' - BBC News

US President Joe Biden has likened a new voting law in the state of Georgia to racist policies of the 20th Century American South, calling it an atrocity.

The law adds restrictions to voting that Mr Biden said disproportionately targeted black Americans.

In a strongly-worded statement, the president called it "Jim Crow in the 21st century" and "a blatant attack on the Constitution".

He later added that the justice department was "taking a look" at it....bbc

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