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The federal judge who blocked the newest version of North Carolinas voter identification law cited the states sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression as she ordered officials not to enforce the law in 2020.
U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs decision was released Tuesday and prevents North Carolina from requiring voters to provide identification starting in 2020. The Republican leaders of the state House and Senate, however, have asked North Carolinas Department of Justice to appeal.
The federal court advised last week that Biggs would formally block the photo ID requirement until a lawsuit filed by state NAACP and others is resolved. Her decision provided insight into why she blocked the law, which she said was similar to a 2013 law that a federal appeals court struck down in 2016.
That court said the photo ID and other voter restrictions were approved with intentional racial discrimination in mind, and Biggs said the newest version of the law was no different in that respect.
North Carolina has a sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression stretching back to the time of slavery, through the era of Jim Crow, and, crucially, continuing up to the present day, Biggs wrote.
U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs decision was released Tuesday and prevents North Carolina from requiring voters to provide identification starting in 2020. The Republican leaders of the state House and Senate, however, have asked North Carolinas Department of Justice to appeal.
The federal court advised last week that Biggs would formally block the photo ID requirement until a lawsuit filed by state NAACP and others is resolved. Her decision provided insight into why she blocked the law, which she said was similar to a 2013 law that a federal appeals court struck down in 2016.
That court said the photo ID and other voter restrictions were approved with intentional racial discrimination in mind, and Biggs said the newest version of the law was no different in that respect.
North Carolina has a sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression stretching back to the time of slavery, through the era of Jim Crow, and, crucially, continuing up to the present day, Biggs wrote.
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"Sordid history" cited as judge blocks NC's voter ID law (Original Post)
Gothmog
Dec 2019
OP
Its all about voter suppression. But its easy to cure: everyone get reregistered and ...
marble falls
Dec 2019
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marble falls
(57,204 posts)1. Sordid history. A poster child for Sordid History.
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)2. We got the Texas voter id law largerly gutted due to intent to discriminate
This is great news for North Carolina.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)3. Its all about voter suppression. But its easy to cure: everyone get reregistered and ...
start voting every single election. Getting us to buy into the "my vote doesn't count" BS is voter suppression, too. If our votes weren't important, didn't mean anything, why are they working so hard to kill our votes? Voting is the best thing we have. They are afraid of our vote.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)4. +++++++++++++++++++++!!!