**** Restrictive North Carolina Voting Law Is Dead After Supreme Court Refuses To Review It ****

[DemocratSinceBirth]

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a long-pending North Carolina case that could have produced the biggest voting rights ruling since the justices four years ago invalidated a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

At issue in the case, North Carolina v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, was a Republican-backed law that imposed a swath of restrictions on voters — including a voter ID requirement, reduced early-voting hours, and a prohibition on registering to vote and casting a ballot on the same day.

The justices’ decision to not hear the dispute means, in effect, that all of these measures won’t be reinstated and can’t be enforced unless lawmakers pass a new law.

With support from the Obama administration, voting rights groups sued North Carolina, arguing that the 2013 law was enacted to disenfranchise black and Latino voters. A federal judge disagreed with those claims and upheld the voting changes in their entirety.

Last summer the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit reversed the judge’s ruling, holding that the state legislature had passed the law with discriminatory intent. The restrictions harked back to the state’s Jim Crow past, the court said, and targeted racial minorities “with almost surgical precision.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/supreme-court-voting-rights-north-carolina_us_59039444e4b0bb2d086e58a4?a5f

[Scurrilous]

1. K&R

[OnDoutside]

2. Surely Gorsuch would have demanded it be heard ?

[wildeyed]

3. Knew it was a good day when I woke up with this song in my head.

Suck it, voter suppression. Today is a good day.