The ‘smoking gun’ proving North Carolina Republicans tried to disenfranchise black voters

[dull_and_wicked]

Today [July 29], a federal court struck down North Carolina's voter-ID law, one of the strictest in the nation. In addition to requiring residents to show identification before they can cast a ballot, the law also eliminated same-day voter registration, eliminated seven days of early voting and put an end to out-of-precinct voting. The federal

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[fauxkaren]

So can the federal government bring a suit against NC for violating the 15th amendment??

[moonshaz]

I have no idea, but according to the article, NC is going to appeal--and no doubt, the higher courts will smack them down again.

McCrory is such a douche. I already despised him for the transphobic bathroom law, but I didn't know he was behind this, too. Scum.

[dull_and_wicked]

McCrory can claim he's going to appeal, but he's also been saying that they'll defend HB2 against the DOJ, when the Attorney General has already gone on the record to say that he refuses to defend HB2 in court since it's unconstitutional (and he's also the Democrat running against McCrory this year, so if he wins that definitely won't happen)

McCrory's always been shit, a few years ago right after he got elected, when there were people outside the governor's mansion protesting a new abortion bill that would make it so most clinics in the state wouldn't meet the standards to provide those services anymore, he hid inside and had some staff member bring a plate of cookies out and tell them all ~god bless you~

[thunderbird8]

I'd guess no, since it's not directly denying the vote on race, just going about it in a roundabout way (like poll taxes and literacy tests in the Jim Crow days, the former had its own amendment to block).

But IANAL, so who knows what the real answer is.

[meadowphoenix]

well, this was what the voting rights act was for (a lot of voting cases were about disparate impact as an implication of disparate treatment anyway)...