North Carolina’s 2018 law requiring photo identification to vote will remain invalidated after a narrow majority on the state Supreme Court agreed with a lower court decision that struck it down.
FILE - In this image provided by the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, Associate Justice Phil Berger Jr. poses. A 2018 law requiring photo identification to vote in North Carolina remains invalidated after a narrow majority on the state Supreme Court agreed Friday, Dec. 16, 2022, with a lower court decision that struck it down.
One Republican legislative leader said later Friday that he would try to pass another voter ID law next year, when the Supreme Court will flip to a 5-2 Republican majority following judicialThe law being challenged was passed weeks after a photo identification amendment to the state constitution was approved by voters. That amendment is also in danger of being thrown out in separate litigation.
The 2011 law was vetoed by then-Gov. Beverly Perdue. The 2013 law was carried out in 2016 primary elections before a federal appeals court struck it down. The trial court found that Republican lawmakers knew of earlier evidence that Black residents had less access to voter ID than others but the legislators “did little if anything to address these concerns when raised by other General Assembly members,” Earls wrote.
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