WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland will address voting rights in a policy speech Friday.The speech is scheduled for 2 p.m.
ET and comes two days after Garland called voting "a fundamental element to our democracy" during congressional testimony."Without it, without the right to vote, none of the other rights follow," Garland said.Attorney General Merrick Garland testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on June 9, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.(Photo by Susan Walsh-Pool/Getty Images) According to the Department of Justice, Garland will address concrete steps the department is taking to secure the right to vote for all Americans.In recent months, Republican-led states have passed a wave of new voting.