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Oral arguments over the constitutionality of North Carolina's photo voter identification law will be held next month, the state Supreme Court has decided in another ruling determined along partisan lines.
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The North Carolina Supreme Court has agreed to accelerate appeals in a photo voter identification lawsuit by hearing the case without waiting for the Court of Appeals to deliberate first. In September, a divided panel of three trial judges threw out the state’s 2018 photo ID law, ruling that it intentionally discriminated against Black voters.
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More litigation on voting, redistricting and race has reached North Carolina’s highest court. Justices held oral arguments Monday examining a lawsuit that alleges the legislature was barred from placing constitutional amendments on the ballot because lawmakers who agreed to do so were elected with the help of distorted district boundaries.
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The state NAACP’s request that Phil Berger Jr. and ex-Sen. Tamara Barringer be disqualified further clouds the future of photo voter ID requirements in one of the numerous Republican-dominated states where lawmakers have sought them.
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A three-judge state panel overturned North Carolina's 2018 photo ID law on Friday. In a 2-1 decision, the judges said the law makes it harder for Black people to vote. Republicans will appeal.
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North Carolina judges have struck down the state’s latest photo voter identification law. Two of the three trial judges hearing a lawsuit declared on Friday that the December 2018 law is unconstitutional.
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WFAE reached out to North Carolina Democrats running for Senate and asked specifically about the Manchin idea on voter ID. How did each candidate feel about supporting the idea?
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A federal appeals court has ruled a judge didn’t step over the line when she refused to let North Carolina’s legislative leaders formally defend the state’s photo identification voting law with other state government attorneys.
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A trial on North Carolina's latest photo voter identification law concluded Friday. Now a panel of judges must decide: were Republicans in the legislature motivated at least partially by racial bias? Or were they purely trying to carry out the public's desire for secure elections?
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Lawyers will be in North Carolina courts again this week, battling over photo ID laws. This comes as voting rights advocates challenge restrictive elections laws across the country, from Georgia to Arizona.