Big win for voting rights! SCOTUS turns down NC voter ID case

[kpete]

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Supreme Court will avoid the fight over North Carolina’s voter law

WASHINGTON
The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a topsy turvy dispute over North Carolina’s strict four-year-old voter ID law.

Rejecting an unusual plea from the North Carolina General Assembly, the court said it would not hear the case in the term that starts in October. The court’s denial, though issued without explanation, effectively meant the Republican-controlled General Assembly could not revive an appeal dropped by the two original combatants.

“The General Assembly is not, and has never purported to be, a named party in this case,” North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein wrote in a legal brief that asked the court not to hear the appeal, adding that “the absence of the General Assembly from this lawsuit is no accident.”

Noting that the case “raises the question of what entity properly speaks for the state of North Carolina,” attorneys who had originally challenged the state’s 2013 law likewise urged the Supreme Court to steer clear.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article150551292.html

[Hortensis]

1. Great. Wished the decision supported voter rights

themselves, rather than only denying standing to the assembly. However, on second thought that actually sounds huge (though that it should lack standing surely was basic?) itself, likely very bad news for other scheming Republican-controlled state legislatures.
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“raises the question of what entity properly speaks for the state of North Carolina,”

[Wounded Bear]

2. Not as strong as a real ruling against...

but I'll take it for now.



How can we publicize the ways in which the Repubs are trying to destroy voting rights in their attempt to attain one party rule?

[rockfordfile]

3. Good for now

[Txbluedog]

4. It's a refusal to hear the case based on confusion on who has rights to dedend NC's position

The Governor and the AG or the legislature? So, basically once NC figures this s*it out the case can be appealed to the SC again