The North Carolina Supreme Court, with a newly constituted Republican majority, reinstated a voter-ID law and rejected a challenge to electoral maps drawn by the state’s GOP-controlled legislature
The North Carolina Supreme Court, with a new Republican majority elected last year, on Friday threw out some of its own recent decisions that endorsed a broad view of voting rights, reinstating a voter-identification law and rejecting a challenge to electoral maps drawn by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.
The court, in a third decision, also rolled back voting rights for some people with felony convictions.
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