Biden slams Georgia voting law as ‘a blatant attack’ on U.S. constitution

By Lawrence Hurley Posted on March 26, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden holds news conference at the White House in Washington

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Friday condemned a new voting law in Georgia as “a blatant attack on the constitution and good conscience.”

In a statement, Biden described the law, which the state’s Republican-dominated legislature approved this week, as a 21st century version of the so-called Jim Crow laws once used to suppress the vote of African Americans.

(Reporting by Jason Lange; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)