RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina’s law that prohibits people convicted of felonies from registering to vote while they are still serving probation, parole or other supervision discriminates against Black residents and is unconstitutional, a panel of state judges ruled on ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Flexing its new strength, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Thursday cut back on a landmark voting rights law in a decision likely to help Republican states fight challenges to voting restrictions they’ve put in place following ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight years after carving the heart out of a landmark voting rights law, the Supreme Court is looking at putting new limits on efforts to combat racial discrimination in voting. The justices are taking up a case ...

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N.C. State Conference of the NAACP v. McCrory (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-133-16, 83 pp.) (Motz, J.) No. 16-1468(L), July 29, 2016; USDC at Greensboro, N.C. (Schroeder, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: A North Carolina district court upholding the challenged portions of ...

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Dickson v. Rucho (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-06-1207, 80 pp.) (Robert Edmunds Jr., J.) (Cheri Beasley, J., joined by Robin Hudson, J., concurring in part & dissenting in part) (Robert Hunter, J., not participating) Appealed from a three-judge panel of Wake ...

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A key leader in the North Carolina General Assembly says voter identification legislation will pick up steam again because the U.S. Supreme Court has struck down part of the Voting Rights Act.

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Invalidating a key Civil Rights era statutory provision designed to stop efforts to impede blacks from voting in the nation’s southern states, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the pre-clearance coverage formula under the Voting Rights Act, ruling that it violates states’ sovereignty rights.

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The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act cannot be enforced unless Congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and localities require federal monitoring of elections.

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