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President Joe Biden on Friday called a sweeping new Georgia law restricting voting access, passed by the state’s Republican-led legislature, an “atrocity,” speaking to reporters as left the White House for Delaware.
PHOTO: President Joe Biden walks towards the members of the media before walking to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, March 26, 2021.
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He spoke shortly after issuing a statement on what he called the “attack on the right to vote in Georgia,” a state he won in November amid debunked claims of fraud.“[I] nstead of celebrating the rights of all Georgians to vote or winning campaigns on the merits of their ideas, slotxo download Republicans in the state instead rushed through an un-American law to deny people the right to vote. This law, like so many. others being pursued by Republicans in statehouses across the country is a blatant attack on the Constitution and good conscience, “Biden said in the statement.
He later said the Justice Department was looking into the matter.
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On Thursday afternoon, Georgia Republicans voted to pass and sign into law a 90-page bill that severely limits voting rights in a previously Republican-dominated state that, besides Biden, also elected two Democratic senators in the 2020 election. Republicans said they were ensuring election integrity.When the bill was sent quickly to GOP Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature, a Democratic state representative from Atlanta, Park Cannon, went to his office, knocked on the governor’s closed office door, demanding to be let in.
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