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A longstanding lawsuit challenging the legitimacy of the North Carolina legislature and its decision to mandate voter ID in the state constitution was heard in court on Thursday after lying ...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's new voter identification law finally began on Monday, with a civil rights group alleging the photo requirement ...
The NAACP argues that, because lawmakers were elected in gerrymandered districts, they did not have the authority to amend the NC constitution. NC court to decide if controversial voter ID ...
The post 5 years after a federal lawsuit by NAACP, North Carolina voter ID trial is set to begin appeared first on TheGrio. The NAACP says the voter ID requirement, along with two other voting ...
In 2013, the North Carolina General Assembly passed, and Governor Pat McCrory signed, HB 589, a voter identification law. A divided panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit invalidated that law in 2016, and the Supreme Court later denied a petition for a writ of certiorari in 2017 after disputes about whether North Carolina's new governor, Roy Cooper, could withdraw ...
The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP first sued the state over its voter ID requirement in 2018, setting in motion a case that has now lasted over five years, ricocheting between ...
The NAACP’s lawsuit, which was first filed in 2018, argues that North Carolina’s voter ID requirement discriminates against Black and Latino voters. Kathleen Roblez, a lawyer representing the ...
A federal trial over North Carolina's photo voter identification law remains set for May after a judge refused Wednesday to end efforts by civil rights groups that sued over the requirement on ...