TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 26, 2016

Responding to North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory’s contention last week that changing the state’s voter identification law for this year’s election would create confusion among voters and poll workers, the U.S. solicitor general argued to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday that keeping the photo ID mandate in place would harm black voters. “Once an electoral law has been found to be racially discriminatory, and injunctive relief has been found to be necessary to remedy that discrimination, the normal rule is that the operation of the law must be suspended,” the government argued. The Greenville Sun has more from the AP.