{"id":762,"date":"2022-05-03T21:02:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=762"},"modified":"2022-05-03T21:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:03:39","slug":"president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote\/president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"President Biden on Protecting the Right to Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-763\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM-300x265.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM-300x265.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM-1024x903.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM-768x678.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM-624x551.png 624w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-8.51.23-PM.png 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>President Biden has publicly expressed the importance of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act throughout his speech at the Atlanta University Center Consortium in January. He highlights that with this law, discriminatory practices such as changing voting methods to suppress votes will not be allowed.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/11\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden has publicly expressed the importance of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act throughout his speech at the Atlanta University Center Consortium in January. He highlights that with this law, discriminatory practices such as changing voting methods to suppress votes will not be allowed. https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2022\/01\/11\/remarks-by-president-biden-on-protecting-the-right-to-vote\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}