North Carolina Is Engaging in “Insane” Jim Crow–Style Voter Suppression, Says Federal Judge

[workinclasszero]

North Carolina Is Engaging in “Insane” Jim Crow–Style Voter Suppression, Says Federal Judge
By Mark Joseph Stern NOV. 3 2016 10:21 AM

U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs slammed an ongoing North Carolinian voter purge during a dramatic Wednesday hearing, telling county attorneys that she was “horrified” by the “insane” process by which voters could be removed from the rolls without their knowledge.

“It almost looks like a cattle call, the way people are being purged,” Biggs said. “This sounds like something that was put together in 1901,” when the state used Jim Crow laws to prevent black citizens from casting a ballot.

Biggs called a hearing after the NAACP sued several North Carolina counties for purging nearly 6,700 voters—most of them black Democrats—from the rolls. These purges were legal under a state law that permits any person to revoke any other person’s voting rights.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/11/03/federal_judge_slams_north_carolina_voter_purge.html

[AmericanActivist]

1. So grateful for the NAACP nm

[Ace Rothstein]

2. People need to start getting locked up for this shit.

It is the only way to end it.

[lsewpershad]

18. Agreed

[Gothmog]

3. The GOP can only win by suppressing the vote

[DemocraticSocialist8]

4. They know NC COULD by itself win the election for Clinton

Not to mention, they're trying to protect McCrory and Burr. Doesn't make it any less racist though.

[Cha]

5. K&R TY

[Hekate]

6. Imagine the conservatives on SCOTUS saying we don't need the Voting Rights Act any more....

I felt sick to my stomach when that decision came down. Scalia -- I am not sorry to see that mf dead.

[workinclasszero]

10. Those liars knew exactly what they were doing

when they killed the voting rights act didn't they?

[Akamai]

14. I'm sorry his demise didn't precede the 2000 decision that gave W. Bush the White House.

[CousinIT]

7. "state law that permits any person to revoke any other person’s voting rights"

Well you know, that law needs to GO.

[Ligyron]

8. Blacks, naw make that Democrats, could counterattack

by finding Republicans to remove from rolls if this doesn't go away.

It would then

[meow2u3]

13. Democrats don't typically engage in such "reverse" voter suppression

That's just Republicans judging Democrats by themselves--as usual!

I admit it's tempting to give the reTHUGS a taste of their own medicine because it's the only way they learn their lesson, but 2 wrongs =/= 1 right.

[Ligyron]

17. You're right of course.

It's an unprincipled thing to do, but it always seems to work for them and that's why they do it. They don't seem to suffer any real blowback either - except with principled people like us who are often sidelined in the large scale public awareness.

The media used to be the guardians of liberty and fairness. Stuff like this would once be front page news and covered and pushed into public's conscientiousness on the nightly news by people like Dan Rather. Oh, but wait - that's right, he was ratfucked by the same unprincipled goons wasn't he? And look what happened to him.

Today, as you well know, the MSM is just infotaintment. It's all about the $$ and enriching the corporatists who seem to have a grip on power and a large part of the Government and they don't play fair anymore. I wish they did.

The legal system is now our best and really, our only weapon in this dogfight with the RW who never play fair and sold whatever principles they once had long ago.

I hope we ultimately win in a fair fight and that we're not principled out of existence at some point.

[PunksMom]

12. Why hasn't it before now?!!!

[steventh]

9. Judge Biggs' written decision will be awesome

when she issues it, I predict. I have seen and heard her in action for many years in many settings. I have no doubt her written decision will be well thought out, and as favorable to voters as the law will allow.

By the way, I voted early. It felt so good to vote for Hillary Clinton. Can't wait to do it again in 4 years.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

15. Once again, the real voter fraud is being perpetrated, or at least attempted,

by the Rs. There aren't enough idiots out there to let them win fair and square, so they must resort to dirty tricks.

[LAS14]

16. Any voter can remove any other voter from the rolls??????

Wha????

The stories about NC just keep rolling out. All of them straining credibility. But I do believer the reports.

This election keeps uncovering sexism and racism that I thought had simmered down. Apparently just went underground.

[Coyotl]

19. "North Carolina counties for purging nearly 6,700 voters—most of them black Democrats"

Criminal. These people need to go to jail. Find a federal civil rights law to put them away.

[workinclasszero]

20. And this alone could throw the race to drumpf

if its as close as they say.

Hard to put anyone if jail over it when the SCOTUS gave them a free pass to deny american citizens of their right to vote.

[dalton99]

21. That's the real and only vote rigging in North Carolina.

[Coyotl]

22. Not the only.