{"id":181323,"date":"2016-07-29T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/29\/north-carolina-voter-id-law-struck-down\/"},"modified":"2016-07-29T19:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T00:45:00","slug":"north-carolina-voter-id-law-struck-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/07\/29\/north-carolina-voter-id-law-struck-down\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina Voter ID Law Struck Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most importantly, the court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2016\/07\/29\/federal_court_strikes_down_north_carolina_voter_id_law_passed_with_racially_discriminatory_intent\/\">found that the law was specifically and deliberately discriminatory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Most damming, <span style=\"color: black;\">[<i>sic<\/i>]<\/span> The appeals court \u2014 citing a lower court\u2019s findings \u2014 noted that North Carolina legislators not only sought data breaking down voting practices by race, but then crated the law\u2019s new provisions to single out practices disproportionately popular among African Americans, like early voting and provisional ballots.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This means that the court may place the state of North Carolina under the preclearance requirement of Section 3 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.&nbsp; (It was Section 4(b) that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court), because there was a finding of deliberate discrimination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most importantly, the court found that the law was specifically and deliberately discriminatory: Most damming, [sic] The appeals court \u2014 citing a lower court\u2019s findings \u2014 noted that North Carolina legislators not only sought data breaking down voting practices by race, but then crated the law\u2019s new provisions to single out practices disproportionately popular among &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,972,1084],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-justice","category-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}