TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 1, 2016

The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday denied a request from North Carolina to allow provisions of its controversial voting rights law to go back into effect. In a 4-4 split, justices left standing a lower court opinion that struck down the law. The vote was a win for civil rights groups and the Department of Justice, which had argued the law would have a disparate impact on minority voters. Local Memphis has a CNN story.