Fact Checking Joe Biden's Selma Address

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The President commemorates the "Bloody Sunday" civil-rights march, while using his speech for partisan ends. But what's the reality of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence on the Voting Rights Act, and did the 2022 midterms support the Democratic claims abouts voting laws in states like Georgia? Plus, Biden teases his 2024 budget by proposing a tax increase for Medicare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	U.S. businesses sold $61 billion worth of products to Chinese consumers on Alibaba in
0:06.1	2021, supporting 390,000 American jobs and $31 billion in wages.
0:13.1	Learn more at AlibabaParisPisances.com.
0:19.1	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:25.1	President Biden goes to Selma Alibaba to call again for the passage of federal voting
0:30.4	legislation while giving at least some details this week of his forthcoming budget proposal.
0:37.4	Welcome I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:40.1	We are joined today by my colleagues on the editorial board, Colin Levy and Kate Bacheld
0:45.9	O'Dell.
0:46.9	Welcome to both.
0:47.9	On Sunday, the president was in Selma Alibaba to commemorate the 58th anniversary of
0:53.9	a bloody Sunday.
0:54.9	That was the police brutality against a civil rights march in 1965 for the Freedom to
1:01.5	Vote, which was met with police tear gas and batons.
1:05.8	President Biden had some remarks about that anniversary, but he also couldn't help making
1:09.5	it into a political moment, talking about everything from the price of insulin to his
1:15.4	infrastructure law, to democratic plans to federalize voting with a couple of bills in
1:21.3	Congress.
1:22.3	Listen to this.
1:23.3	And still picture the troopers of the batons and wands and whips.
1:27.3	A promise that the clairs were all created and deserve to be treated equally.
1:31.9	Two weeks later, they marched among Gumrie with Dr. King and even bigger coalition of people
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