Federal judge releases scathing opinion blocking North Carolina GOP from restricting voter access

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Source: raw story



Published 3 mins ago on December 31, 2019


On Tuesday, a federal judge in North Carolina released a blistering opinion in NAACP v. Cooper, blocking the North Carolina GOP from enforcing its strict voter ID requirement and ordering state officials to inform voters that the requirement is not in effect for their upcoming elections.

District Judge Loretta Biggs wrote that there was profound evidence the measure was engineered with “discriminatory intent,” pointing to the GOP’s repeated efforts to gerrymander the state......................

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/12/federal-judge-releases-scathing-opinion-blocking-north-carolina-gop-from-restricting-voter-access/

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GRAND way to bring in the new year

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[Gothmog]

1. "Sordid history" cited as judge blocks NC's voter ID law

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The federal judge who blocked the newest version of North Carolina’s voter identification law cited the state’s “sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression” as she ordered officials not to enforce the law in 2020.

U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Biggs’ decision was released Tuesday and prevents North Carolina from requiring voters to provide identification starting in 2020. The Republican leaders of the state House and Senate, however, have asked North Carolina’s Department of Justice to appeal.

The federal court advised last week that Biggs would formally block the photo ID requirement until a lawsuit filed by state NAACP and others is resolved. Her decision provided insight into why she blocked the law, which she said was similar to a 2013 law that a federal appeals court struck down in 2016.

That court said the photo ID and other voter restrictions were approved with intentional racial discrimination in mind, and Biggs said the newest version of the law was no different in that respect.

“North Carolina has a sordid history of racial discrimination and voter suppression stretching back to the time of slavery, through the era of Jim Crow, and, crucially, continuing up to the present day,” Biggs wrote.

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3. Bravo!

My home state has been controlled by these animals for far too long. Of course, being that the judge is both a person of color and a female, expect the GOP machine to start screaming about how her decision is biased and so on. I really do love my home state, but it has been all but insanity there for over a decade. The capital of my state had been seen as a bastion of moderate if not liberal attitudes in the past, and to see it reduced to a greed/power trip for decadence has been heartbreaking. Maybe things will change, but I know the GOP claws run deep in those who allowed them to grab hold in the first place.

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2. The GOP will never legitimately win another election, assuming it ever did. The superfluous party.

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4. The GOP has been the party of voter suppression for a long time

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