{"id":98097,"date":"2022-06-25T17:38:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=98097"},"modified":"2022-06-25T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:38:15","slug":"north-carolina-republican-lawmakers-win-right-to-intervene-in-court-and-defend-states-voter-id-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=98097","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;North Carolina Republican lawmakers win right to intervene in court and defend state\u2019s voter-ID law&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/2022\/06\/north-carolina-republican-lawmakers-win-right-to-intervene-in-court-and-defend-states-voter-id-law\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCOTUSBlog<\/a>: &#8220;The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two Republican legislators in North Carolina can join a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the state\u2019s voter-identification law. Two lower courts had rejected the legislators\u2019 request, reasoning that the state\u2019s Democratic attorney general and the board of elections were already defending the law, but the justices reversed those rulings. In an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-248_4fc5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">8-1 opinion<\/a>\u00a0by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court ruled that the Republican legislators have a right to intervene in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thursday\u2019s decision addressed only the legislators\u2019 right to join the lawsuit to defend the voter-ID law; it did not address the underlying issue of whether the law violates federal voting-rights protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law at the center of the case requires voters to provide photo identification to cast a ballot and directs county election boards to provide ID cards at no cost to voters. The state\u2019s legislature passed the law in 2018, and it went into effect over a veto by the state\u2019s governor, Democrat Roy Cooper. The North Carolina NAACP then went to federal court, where it argued that the law violates both federal voting rights laws and the Constitution. When Philip Berger, the leader of the North Carolina Senate, and Timothy Moore, the leader of the state\u2019s House of Representatives, asked to intervene in the lawsuit, the district court rebuffed their request, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit upheld that decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUSBlog: &#8220;The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that two Republican legislators in North Carolina can join a lawsuit to defend the constitutionality of the state\u2019s voter-identification law. Two lower courts had rejected the legislators\u2019 request, reasoning that the state\u2019s Democratic attorney general and the board of elections were already defending the law, but the justices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98098,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98097\/revisions\/98098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}