WASHINGTON, July 31 -- Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a eulogy for the late U.S. congressman John Lewis' funeral on Thursday, warning that the voting rights the late civil rights icon championed are threatened heading into the 2020 election.
"There are those in power doing their darnedest to discourage people from voting, by closing polling locations and targeting minorities and students with restrictive ID laws and attacking our voting rights with surgical precision, even undermining the postal service in an election that's going to be dependent on mail-in ballots so people don't get sick," Obama said during his 40-minute speech.
Obama called for the automatic registration of all voters, restoring voting rights to inmates who have completed their sentences, ending partisan gerrymandering of districts and making Election Day a national holiday.
Earlier in the day, U.S. President Donald Trump raised the possibility of delaying the country's presidential election in November, alleging that "universal mail-in voting" will make the 2020 election "the most inaccurate and fraudulent in history."
Lewis, who had fought for voting rights throughout his 33 years in Congress, died earlier this month at age 80 after a battle with pancreatic cancer.
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之副词1
中考英语复习资料:中考英语词汇与语法强化训练1
中考英语复习资料:中考英语真题单项选择之数词1
中考英语知识点:关键句型全总结---击败某人的句型
中考英语知识点:中考英语语法讲解资料及练习---考前指导
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之形容词3
中考英语复习资料:中考英语真题单项选择之冠词3
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之冠词2
中考英语复习资料:中考英语试题单项选择之动词时态5
中考英语复习资料:中考英语真题单项选择之冠词4
中考英语知识点:中考英语语法讲解资料及练习---介词
中考英语知识点:中考英语语法讲解资料及练习---形容词
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之代词4
中考英语复习资料:中考英语试题单项选择之宾语从句8
中考英语复习资料:中考英语重点短语8
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之名词3
中考英语知识点:历届中考英语高频语法点250例1
中考英语复习资料:中考英语真题单项选择之数词2
中考英语知识点:中考英语单词拼写四大答题技巧
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之冠词1
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之副词4
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之副词3
中考英语知识点:中考冲刺英语专练第三讲
中考英语复习资料:中考冲刺英语专练第七讲
中考英语复习资料:中考英语试题单项选择之连词4
中考英语知识点:中考英语语法讲解资料及练习---不定式
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之名词5
中考英语复习资料:中考英语试题单项选择之动词时态1
中考英语知识点:中考英语真题单项选择之副词5
中考英语知识点:中考英语试题单项选择之情景交际5
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |