4th District Court of Appeals Strikes Down NC Voter ID Law

[AthenaAwakened]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/30/u...n-north-carolina-voter-id-provision.html?_r=0

North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature rewrote the state’s voting rules in 2013 shortly after the Supreme Court struck down a section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that had given the Justice Department the power to oversee changes in election procedures in areas with a history of racial discrimination. Forty of the state’s 100 counties had been subject to oversight.

Civil rights advocates and the Justice Department had sued to block the law, but a Federal District Court judge upheld it in April, writing that the state’s “significant, shameful past discrimination” had largely abated in the last 25 years.

On Friday, the three-judge panel emphatically disagreed, saying the lower court’s amply documented ruling had failed to consider “the inextricable link between race and politics in North Carolina.”

The judges noted that Republican leaders had drafted their restrictions on voting only after receiving data indicating that African-Americans would be the voters most significantly affected by them.

 

[repoman]

 

[Nice Squirrel]

upset you didn't get to vote against the contract

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Wisconsin's voter ID law just bit the dust also:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html

The court called it "a cure worse than the disease".

In NC, "the court found that North Carolina lawmakers requested data on racial differences in voting behaviors in the state." Nothing like being obvious about it. The NC law had also shortened the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, after the data showed that African American voters used the first 7 days of that voting period more than others. It also eliminated Sunday voting, which, guess what?

I used to think about retiring to NC. I should thank them for saving me from that mistake.

 

[AthenaAwakened]

What does this ...

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... have to do with this?

Wisconsin's voter ID law just bit the dust also:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...0b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html

The court called it "a cure worse than the disease".

In NC, "the court found that North Carolina lawmakers requested data on racial differences in voting behaviors in the state." Nothing like being obvious about it. The NC law had also shortened the early voting period from 17 to 10 days, after the data showed that African American voters used the first 7 days of that voting period more than others. It also eliminated Sunday voting, which, guess what?

I used to think about retiring to NC. I should thank them for saving me from that mistake.

 

[SimpleDon]

I can't help but point out that eight years ago the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals was one of the most politically conservative CoA's in the country. With the appointment of 6 of the 15 judges Obama turned the court into a much more balanced, much less reactionary court.

If there is anyone left who seriously believes that there is no difference between the two parties let's consider the fact above and this decision. And that there are 75 district and 10 court of appeals vacancies in addition to the one Supreme Court vacancy waiting to be filled.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

And the GOP continually complains that Black Americans don't vote for them. Now why would they hold the GOP in disdain? After all the GOP has done for them.

 

[ronburgundy]

Yet another reason why the integrity of the courts is so important, and why ensuring that Trump and the GOP don't get to nominate the next 2-4 justices is more important than every single pet issue of Bern victims combined.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yet another reason why the integrity of the courts is so important, and why ensuring that Trump and the GOP don't get to nominate the next 2-4 justices is more important than every single pet issue of Bern victims combined.

I'll take passive-aggressive for $1200 Alex.

 

[ronburgundy]

Yet another reason why the integrity of the courts is so important, and why ensuring that Trump and the GOP don't get to nominate the next 2-4 justices is more important than every single pet issue of Bern victims combined.

I'll take passive-aggressive for $1200 Alex.

Nothing passive about it. It is straight forward and valid argument against the petulant Bernie supporters who are not supporting Hillary. In fact, it is the argument that Bernie used himself at the convention.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

To solve this concern, they should bring in single payer universal health care and give everybody photo ID health cards.