On MLK Day, Biden slams state voter ID laws

Protecting Right to Vote

NBC News – “On MLK Day, Biden boosts voting rights”
Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the outcome of the immigration reform and income inequality debates “rests ultimately on the ballot box,” warning civil rights activists to keep fighting to restore the core of the Voting Rights Act.

Vice President Joe Biden reaffirmed his disgust for the United States Supreme Court decision to overturn a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, telling a crowd on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that he plans to fight for minority rights because “opponents know the single most dangerous thing to give us is the right to vote.”

Biden addressed attendees at the National Action Network’s annual King Day Breakfast in Washington, D.C., on Monday morning. Throughout his speech before the Rev. Al Sharpton-led organization, which included an attempt at a faux Southern accent, Biden focused on voter identification laws and the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down a portion of the Voting Rights Act. The vice president lobbed multiple insults at those supportive of voter ID laws, saying the push for such legislation was an attempt to keep African-Americans away from the ballot box.

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