July 29, 2016
By Tim Buckland
Raleigh - A federal court (click here) on Friday struck down North Carolina's sweeping voter laws, including its requirement for certain kinds of identification in order to vote.
The three-judge 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling upholding all parts of the state's controversial 2013 voter laws. In its ruling, the appellate court called the state's law unconstitutional and adopted with "discriminatory intent."
"We thus take seriously, as the Constitution demands, any infringement on this right (to vote)," the ruling read. "We cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history."'...
True to form the lawsuit had to reach the federal court before an fair hearing is reached. When is anyone in the federal government going to review the North Carolina courts for incompetency!
Where would the people of North Carolina be without the ACLU. This is outrageous that every time there is an issue of fairness it never gets resolved in the state courts. The ACLU is North Carolinians lifeline. That should not be.
...The ruling was immediately cheered by voting rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina.
By Tim Buckland
Raleigh - A federal court (click here) on Friday struck down North Carolina's sweeping voter laws, including its requirement for certain kinds of identification in order to vote.
The three-judge 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court's ruling upholding all parts of the state's controversial 2013 voter laws. In its ruling, the appellate court called the state's law unconstitutional and adopted with "discriminatory intent."
"We thus take seriously, as the Constitution demands, any infringement on this right (to vote)," the ruling read. "We cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history."'...
True to form the lawsuit had to reach the federal court before an fair hearing is reached. When is anyone in the federal government going to review the North Carolina courts for incompetency!
Where would the people of North Carolina be without the ACLU. This is outrageous that every time there is an issue of fairness it never gets resolved in the state courts. The ACLU is North Carolinians lifeline. That should not be.
...The ruling was immediately cheered by voting rights advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of North Carolina.
"With surgical precision, North Carolina tried to eliminate voting practices disproportionately used by African-Americans. This ruling is a stinging rebuke of the state's attempt to undermine African-American voter participation, which had surged over the last decade,” said Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's Voting Rights Project. “It is a major victory for North Carolina voters and for voting rights."
N.C. Rep. Susi Hamilton, D-New Hanover, who voted against the law in 2013, also applauded the ruling....
