Martin Luther King Jr.’s family is planning to commemorate the January federal holiday in a new way next month: pressuring Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation.
Both pieces of legislation have been blocked by Senate Republicans, and Senate Democrats have so far declined to change the rules that require 60 votes for most bills to advance. The Senate is evenly split at 50-50.
The King family is joined in their campaign by more than 75 groups, including including National Action Network, National Urban League, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, SEIU and MoveOn. Many of the groups have been lobbying for months for congressional action; King also led a March on Washington in August in support of federal voting legislation.
The family plans to march across bridges in Arizona and Washington, D.C., over the holiday weekend next month, a nod to the historic civil rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala.On Jan. 15, family members will rally in Arizona, the home state of Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who has opposed changing the Senate’s filibuster rules.
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