NC Supreme Court strikes down state Senate map, voter ID law.
RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday delivered a mixed ruling on a string of voting maps and tossed out a voter ID law that had been stalled by legal challenges.
In a 4-3 ruling split along ideological lines, the Democratic majority on the state’s highest court held that a state Senate map that will give Republicans veto-proof control within the chamber next year created “stark partisan asymmetry in violation of the fundamental right to vote on equal terms.”
The court, however, held that a revised state House map passed by lawmakers this year may be used in future elections and that a congressional map to be used only for this year’s election was constitutional.
Meanwhile, a 2018 law compelling residents to show photo identification when they vote in person was struck down in a separate 4-3 decision. It hadn’t been implemented due to legal challenges, including in two other cases, that argued the policy would disenfranchise racial minorities.
Associate Justice Anita Earls wrote in the court’s majority opinion that “the law was enacted with discriminatory intent to disproportionately disenfranchise and burden African-American voters in North Carolina.”
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