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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:45 PM Jul 2016

Appeals court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law

Source: The Washington Post

By Ann E. Marimow July 29 at 12:34 PM

A federal appeals court on Friday struck down North Carolina’s requirement that voters show identification before casting ballots and reinstated an additional week of early voting.

The unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit was an overwhelming victory for civil rights groups and the Justice Department that argued the voting law was designed to dampen the growing political clout of African American voters, who participated in record numbers in elections in 2008 and 2012.

“We can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent,” Judge Diana Gribbon Motz wrote for the majority.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/appeals-court-strikes-down-north-carolinas-voter-id-law/2016/07/29/810b5844-4f72-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html?wpisrc=al_alert-COMBO-politics%252Bnation

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Appeals court strikes down North Carolina voter ID law (Original Post) DonViejo Jul 2016 OP

Yes! Hissyspit Jul 2016 #1

You beat me to it Coolest Ranger Jul 2016 #2

Little Donald and Bigoted Pat will not like this, not one bit! nt geek tragedy Jul 2016 #3

This must be making the Rev. Barber extremely happy after his knock out speech last night kimbutgar Jul 2016 #4

About time this was decided too! Ford_Prefect Jul 2016 #5

A victory for democracy! meow2u3 Jul 2016 #6

Another loss for drumpf and his pet repugs. lark Jul 2016 #7

Well Con...ald Friend or Foe Jul 2016 #8

...targeting African Americans “with almost surgical precision” Eugene Jul 2016 #9

The Latest: NC voters rejoice after voter ID law is blocked Judi Lynn Jul 2016 #10

Fantastic!!!!! CRK7376 Jul 2016 #11

Hissyspit

(45,788 posts)

1. Yes!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:46 PM

Jul 2016

Coolest Ranger

(2,034 posts)

2. You beat me to it

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:51 PM

Jul 2016

Good news for us

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

3. Little Donald and Bigoted Pat will not like this, not one bit! nt

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:53 PM

Jul 2016

kimbutgar

(21,195 posts)

4. This must be making the Rev. Barber extremely happy after his knock out speech last night

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 12:53 PM

Jul 2016

Ford_Prefect

(7,921 posts)

5. About time this was decided too!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:02 PM

Jul 2016

We need a national standard for this and many other aspects of voting so that such discrimination cannot once again become law.

Until we do Art Pope, the Koch brothers, and other well heeled interests like Duke Power will be able to pass regulations to filter the voters out they do not prefer, and so edit political access and agenda.

meow2u3

(24,773 posts)

6. A victory for democracy!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:05 PM

Jul 2016

Another damning statement noticed by the judges:

During oral arguments, Judges James A. Wynn, Jr. and Henry F. Floyd remarked on the timing of the changes, and on comments from a state senator who said lawmakers were no longer restrained by the “legal headache” of the Voting Rights Act.

The timing “looks pretty bad to me,” Floyd said, prompting murmurs of agreement from the courtroom packed with opponents of the law, some of whom traveled from North Carolina to the Richmond-based appeals court.

lark

(23,156 posts)

7. Another loss for drumpf and his pet repugs.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:07 PM

Jul 2016

Such a big win for the people in NC and for real democracy and voting rights.

YAY!!!!

Friend or Foe

(195 posts)

8. Well Con...ald

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 01:26 PM

Jul 2016

Are you feeling a little more Blue after this decision?

Eugene

(61,953 posts)

9. ...targeting African Americans “with almost surgical precision”

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 02:53 PM

Jul 2016

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jul/29/north-carolina-voter-id-law-struck-down

Court's opinion: http://www.ca4.uscourts.gov/Opinions/Published/161468.P.pdf

Judi Lynn

(160,630 posts)

10. The Latest: NC voters rejoice after voter ID law is blocked

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jul 29, 2016, 06:16 PM

Jul 2016

The Latest: NC voters rejoice after voter ID law is blocked

Updated 3:51 pm, Friday, July 29, 2016

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a federal appeals court overturning North Carolina's voter ID law (all times local):

4:45 p.m.

North Carolina voters who were prevented from casting ballots because of the state's voter ID law are celebrating after a federal appeals court blocked it.

The Rev. Moses Colbert said he couldn't vote in 2014 because election officials lost his paperwork. Before the 2013 law was passed, he could have simply registered to vote the same day as the election. The new law ended that practice.

Colbert says he was stunned because he almost always votes. The 61-year-old black pastor says he's aware of all that previous generations did to win him the right to vote.

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/The-Latest-NC-voters-rejoice-after-voter-ID-law-8655544.php

CRK7376

(2,203 posts)

11. Fantastic!!!!!

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Sat Jul 30, 2016, 08:21 AM

Jul 2016

As a white guy with a Retired Military ID, I never would have really had a problem. I hated showing my ID card back in March. I have it easy compared to all the others in NC that were hard hit with this law. Let Berger and McCrory work this one out now!

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