Obama called on Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act, which Trump and Republican congressional leaders have left unchanged since the Supreme Court diminished the landmark law in 2012.

The lawsuit was filed after Texas' secretary of state gave county registrars a list of 95,000 registered voters who he suggested were illegal non-citizen voters based on faulty drivers license data.

Selma paid tribute to the late President Lyndon B. Johnson for the 1965 Voting Rights Act, recalling the clashes between police and marchers 50 years ago in this Alabama city.