North Carolina NAACP sues to stop Republican-backed voter ID law
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - North Carolina’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against a voter identification law enacted a day earlier by the state’s lame-duck Republican-dominated legislature.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in North Carolina under the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which govern the conditions under which people are defined as citizens and allowed to vote, according to the civil rights organization.
“This is a brazen effort by a lame-duck, usurper legislature to once again legislate voter suppression,” Irv Joyner, Legal Redress Chair of the NC NAACP, said in a statement.
“This law is designed to suppress the votes of people of color. The federal courts have seen through this legislature’s attempts to do this before and we are confident that they will see through this current attempt, as well.”
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POLITICS DECEMBER 20, 2018 / 5:20 PM / UPDATED 35 MINUTES AGO
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