Attorney General Merrick Garland, in an address Sunday at a church in Selma, Alabama, characterized state election laws designed to verify mail-in ballots, restrict drop boxes, and require voter ID as “discriminatory, burdensome, and unnecessary.”
Experts say the attorney general’s comments don’t line up with the views of a supermajority of Americans, and that the Biden administration intentionally is undermining election reform efforts ahead of the November elections.
During his appearance with Vice President Kamala Harris at Selma’s Tabernacle Baptist Church marking the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers, Garland declared that his Justice Department is ramping up its “fight” against states and local jurisdictions to challenge laws designed to strengthen the integrity of elections.
Garland said some states have…
