President Biden returned to Atlanta on Sunday, one year after he came to the city to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and delivered a call for nonviolent action for voting rights. He vowed to rewrite Senate rules to defeat opponents, but a year later, none of the voting rights measures he championed passed the Democratic-controlled Congress, and the prospects of passing them in the newly elected Republican-controlled House are small. Despite this, the President offered only vague exhortations of hope and no concrete policy plans or legislative strategies. He assured the audience at Dr. King's Ebenezer Baptist Church that their side in the struggle would overcome someday. He also spoke about the importance of economic justice, civil rights, voting rights and protecting democracy. He refrained from the open partisanship of his speech the previous year, where he compared Republicans to segregationists.
