Joe Biden calls for voting protections as he visits civil rights march site

President Joe Biden speaks near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma (Julie Bennett/PA)

President Joe Biden used the searing memories of Selma’s Bloody Sunday to recommit to a cornerstone of democracy, lionising a seminal moment from the civil rights movement at a time when he has been unable to push enhanced voting protections through Congress and a conservative Supreme Court has undermined a landmark voting law.

“Selma is a reckoning.