Harris warns voting rights ‘under assault’ as family and activists honor MLK

Martin Luther King's family and civil rights advocates urged lawmakers to protect our voting rights or be an enabler of voter suppression'

Vice-president Kamala Harris on Monday warned that the right to vote in America was under assault" and tens of millions of Americans faced potential disenfranchisement unless threatened voting rights legislation was passed by US lawmakers.

The speech was given on the Martin Luther King day public holiday and comes as King's family and other civil rights activists in America are pushing for expanded federal voting rights legislation despite political opposition from Republicans.