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Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., lead a group across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 3, 2013. President Joe Biden on Sunday, March 5, 2023, is set to pay tribute to the heroes of “Blood Sunday," joining thousands for the annual commemoration of the seminal moment in the civil rights movement that led to passage of landmark voting rights legislation nearly 60 years ago. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Biden’s Selma visit puts spotlight back on voting rights

By Aamer Madhani and Kim Chandler - Associated Press

Vice President Kamala Harris marches on the Edmund Pettus Bridge after speaking in Selma, Ala., on the anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the civil rights movement, Sunday, March 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Kamala Harris marks ‘Bloody Sunday’ anniversary in Selma

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters alongside, from left, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., during a press conference regarding the Democratic party's shift to focus on voting rights at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

Democrats’ voting bill defeated by Senate filibuster

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters during her weekly press conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

House passes partisan voting measures, setting up a showdown in the Senate

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 4, 2020, photo Maricopa County elections officials count ballots at the Maricopa County Recorder's Office in Phoenix. The Supreme Court has upheld voting restrictions in Arizona in a decision that could make it harder to challenge other voting measures put in place by Republican lawmakers following last year's elections. (AP Photo/Matt York) **FILE**

Liberals call for federal election laws, packing the Supreme Court after voting rights loss

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., flanked by Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., left, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., speaks with reporters before a key test vote on the For the People Act, a sweeping bill that would overhaul the election system and voting rights, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 22, 2021. The bill is a top priority for Democrats seeking to ensure access to the polls and mail-in ballots, but it is opposed by Republicans as a federal overreach. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Heritage Foundation calls for filibustering Democrats’ next voting bill

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York, holds a news conference, Thursday, March 25, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool via AP)

Chuck Schumer: Senate will prioritize voting rights, gun control, economic recovery

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 4, 1990, file photo, civil rights figures lead marchers across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the recreation of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march in Selma, Ala. From left are Hosea Williams of Atlanta, Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Evelyn Lowery, SCLC President Joseph Lowery and Coretta Scott King. This Sunday, March 7, 2021, marks the 56th anniversary of those marches and &quot;Bloody Sunday,&quot; when more than 500 demonstrators gathered on March 7, 1965, to demand the right to vote and cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge. They were met by dozens of state troopers and many were severely beaten. (AP Photo/Jamie Sturtevant, File)

Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee to honor civil rights icons

By KAT STAFFORD - Associated Press

The Rev. Al Sharpton listens during an interview at his office, Thursday, July 30, 2020, in New York. For more than three decades, Sharpton, 65, has been an advocate for Black American families seeking justice in the wake of violence that highlight systemic racism. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Decades later, Sharpton still insists: No justice, no peace

By AARON MORRISON - Associated Press

Transcript: Barack Obama’s address at John Lewis’ funeral

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This June 16, 2010, file photo, Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., participates in a ceremony to unveil two plaques recognizing the contributions of enslaved African Americans in the construction of the United States Capitol on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, has died. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed his passing late Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Civil rights icon John Lewis remembered in his hometown

By Kim Chandler - Associated Press

People gather at a make-shift memorial near the home of Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., Sunday, July 19, 2020, in Atlanta. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80, was the youngest and last survivor of the Big Six civil rights activists who organized the 1963 March on Washington, and spoke shortly before the group's leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., gave his &quot;I Have a Dream&quot; speech to a vast sea of people. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Georgia Dems choose state chair to replace Lewis on ballot

By BEN NADLER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday March 4, 2007, file photo, from left, Brown Chapel AME Church Pastor James Jackson, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, and Rev. Clete Kiley, hold hands and sing at the end of a church service in Selma, Ala., on the commemoration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. Lewis, who carried the struggle against racial discrimination from Southern battlegrounds of the 1960s to the halls of Congress, died Friday, July 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

Rights activists, political leaders mourn Rep. John Lewis

By GENE JOHNSON - Associated Press

This image released by Magnolia Pictures shows Rep. John Lewis in a scene from &quot;John Lewis: Good Trouble.&quot; (Ben Arnon/Magnolia Pictures via AP)

Review: A timely portrait in ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble’

By LINDSEY BAHR - Associated Press