North Carolina Turned Away by U.S. High Court on Voting Rules

[Purveyor]

Source: Bloomberg

Apr 6, 2015 9:31 AM EDT

The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by North Carolina, declining for now to approve Republican-backed voting restrictions that may shape the 2016 election.

North Carolina asked the nation’s highest court to uphold provisions that eliminate same-day voter registration and out-of-precinct voting. The Supreme Court previously let those provisions take effect for the 2014 balloting, and the state was seeking a ruling that would have a broader effect.

The high court will almost certainly have another chance to consider the restrictions before the 2016 election. A trial in the North Carolina case is set for July in a federal district court in Winston-Salem.

A federal appeals court ruled in October that the disputed changes disproportionately affected black voters and probably violated the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-04-06/north-carolina-turned-away-by-u-s-high-court-on-voting-rules

[S_B_Jackson]

1. So really, they're not going to intervene in an already on-going suit to be heard in district court

sounds like a proper "no call" denial.

Let this get properly masticated by the federal judiciary.

[Iliyah]

2. GOPers don't want anyone to vote that doesn't vote for them.

GOPers think people who vote against them are the devil!

I have no faith in the USSC. The five justices do not represent the American people.

[cstanleytech]

3. That's not true.

They represent the wealthy and the racist assholes very well.

[samsingh]

4. maybe one of the repug 5 on the bench will resign before then

[Hekate]

8. No one is leaving before the next Prez is in office, so if that's Jeb....

...well, I don't need to spell that out for you.

[AlbertCat]

5. Remember.... NC voted for Obama in '08.... and almost did it again in '12

We CAN'T have that happening again!

This is why the Kochs and Art Pope spent a fortune skewing the last few elections there (here, I'm in NC).

Not only must it not happen again, but NC must also be punished as an example to other Southern states who may vote blue.

[ms liberty]

6. Exactly. We need to kick out McCrony and Friends.

[calimary]

7. So what they're gonna think, in response, is "HOW DO WE FIX THAT DAMN VOTING RIGHTS ACT?

We've gotta go to the source then and undo the rest of that! THEN we can have it our way and keep 'those people' from voting, like it's supposed to be!"

Bet on it. These assholes don't give up. Which is why WE can't afford to.

[turbinetree]

9. Vote

"Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States
​Protecting the Integrity of Elections