North Carolina Republicans Can Defend Voter ID Law, Supreme Court Rules
23rd June 2022
North Carolina lawmakers have the power to protect the state’s voter identification requirement, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The 8-1 decision allows two Republican state legislators to defend in court a law that requires in-person and absentee voters to present at least 1 of 10 different options of photo ID. Lower courts said that only North Carolina’s Democratic attorney general could defend the law. The NAACP challenged the law, Senate Bill 824, in court, saying it burdens minority voters, though 69 percent of black Americans support voter ID requirements.
The idea of a Democrat official ‘defending’ a voter identification requirement law is Straight Outa Comedy Central.