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HAPPENING NOW: The North Carolina Supreme Court is rehearing a case challenging a strict photo ID law that was previously struck down by the court last year.
Stream the oral argument here: youtube.com/@supremecourto…
Follow along for live updates.🧵
Stream the oral argument here: youtube.com/@supremecourto…
Follow along for live updates.🧵
Get background on the law, why the court is rehearing this case and why it's so notable here.👇
Here's who will be arguing today:
⚖️Voters will argue that the law is discriminatory and urge the court to affirm its previous decision to strike down the law.
⚖️GOP lawmakers will argue that the court's previous ruling was wrongly decided and urge the court to reinstate the law.
⚖️Voters will argue that the law is discriminatory and urge the court to affirm its previous decision to strike down the law.
⚖️GOP lawmakers will argue that the court's previous ruling was wrongly decided and urge the court to reinstate the law.
TOMORROW: The newly Republican-led North Carolina Supreme Court will rehear a case challenging a strict photo ID law that was previously struck down by the then-Democratic court last year for intentionally discriminating against Black voters.
Here's what you need to know.🧵
Here's what you need to know.🧵
In 2018, North Carolina passed voter suppression law #SB824, which severely limited the list of acceptable photo IDs for voting. North Carolina voters filed a lawsuit, arguing that the law was passed with the intent to discriminate against Black voters.
democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
SB 824 has many of the same ID provisions as SB 589, another North Carolina law that was struck down by the 4th Circuit in 2016 for targeting Black voters "with almost surgical precision." democracydocket.com/cases/north-ca…
North Carolina GOP lawmakers file brief defending a photo ID law that was previously struck down for violating the state constitution. After Republicans took control of the court, the justices agreed to reconsider the prior decision invalidating the law. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/no…
Last year, North Carolina's strict photo ID law #SB824 was struck down for intentionally discriminating against Black voters. But Republican lawmakers are arguing that the law is "one of the most voter-friendly photo voter ID laws in the Nation" and should be reinstated.
The legislators argue that the law was not enacted with discriminatory intent and did not disparately impact Black voters, despite both the trial court and the state Supreme Court holding otherwise.
🚨STARTING NOW: Oral arguments begin in the North Carolina Supreme Court over the state's law requiring photo ID to vote. Get background below and follow for live updates!
📺Watch along here:
📺Watch along here:
The attorney for the legislative defendants begins: "The Superior Court's determination that #SB824 was motivated by a desire to entrench Republicans by targeting African American voters is unsupportable both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact."
Legislative defendants say that the Superior Court got facts about #SB824 wrong, such as how long free IDs to vote were valid, and the lower court "presumed bad faith on behalf of the General Assembly."
🚨⚖️COURT ALERT: Today the North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit arguing that a state law requiring photo ID to vote was passed with the intent to discriminate against Black voters in violation of the NC Constitution.
Here’s what you need to know.🧵
Here’s what you need to know.🧵
In the 2018 elections, North Carolinians approved a state constitutional amendment requiring photo ID to vote. Also during these elections, Republicans lost super-majority control of the NC Legislature.
Between the elections and when the new lawmakers took power, the GOP-controlled North Carolina Legislature passed #SB824, a bill requiring all NC voters to present a photo ID when voting in person. Gov. Roy Cooper (D) vetoed the bill, but lawmakers overrode the veto.
