Name: NC Supreme Court reconsiders law requiring photo ID to vote
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Description: A day after rehearing a gerrymandering case that Republican lawmakers lost last year, the state Supreme Court took up another case -- voter identification -- that the GOP also lost.

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A day after rehearing a gerrymandering case that Republican lawmakers lost last year, the state Supreme Court took up another case -- voter identification -- that the GOP also lost.

MENTAL HEALTH. THERE IS A BIPARTISAN AGREEMENT THAT BOTH OF THOSE AREAS NEED MORE FUNDING. THE NEW REPUBLICAN MAJORITY ON THE STATE'S HIGHEST COURT IS REOPENING A CASE THAT COULD BRING BACK A REQUIREMENT TO CAST A BALLOT AT YOUR POLLING PLACE. >> THIS GOES BACK TO 2013 WHEN THE REPUBLICAN LEGISLATURE PASSED A LAW REQUIRING VOTERS SHOW A PHOTO ID. A COURT RULED THAT UNCONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLICANS PASSED A NEW LAW IN 2018. THE SAME YEAR VOTERS APPROVED A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT FOR A PHOTO ID. THE STATE SUPREME COURT STRUCK DOWN DOWN JUST 3 MONTHS AGO. WRAL'S MATT TALHELM IS LIVE OUTSIDE THE COURT NOW TO EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS COMING BACK UP AGAIN. MASKS. >> WELL, DEB, IT'S THE SAME REASON WE TOLD YOU ABOUT WHEN WE'RE INSIDE THE COURT LAST NIGHT TALKING ABOUT A PARTISAN GERRYMANDERING CASE HERE FOR VOTING DISTRICTS. THE LAWS HAVEN'T CHANGED. THE CASES HAVEN'T CHANGED. BUT THE MAJORITY POLITICAL POWER OF THE PROBLEM, THEY MEMBERS OF THE JUSTICES HERE ON THIS COURT THAT HAS NOW SHIFTED. >> I SAY IT'S >> WITH THE SECOND TIME IN 2 DAYS, THE STATE'S HIGHEST COURT CONVENED TO DO SOMETHING. IT ONLY DONE TWICE BEFORE IN 30 YEARS. REHEAR A CASE ALREADY DECIDED THE NEXT CASE. IS HOMES FOR SAYS MORE IN DECEMBER. THE COURT STRUCK DOWN A LAW THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE SHOW A PHOTO ID TO VOTE IN PERSON. THE DEMOCRAT MAJORITY OF JUSTICES FOUND REPUBLICANS IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CRAFTED THE LAW TO TARGET BLACK VOTERS WHO ARE LESS LIKELY TO HAVE THE REQUIRED ID'S AND TEND TO VOTE MORE FOR DEMOCRATS. SO YOUR ARGUMENT IS THAT. >> WE SHOULD REHEAR AND CHANGE OUR OPINION BECAUSE WE. >> GOT IT WRONG. THE FIRST TIME YES IN THIS COURT HAS DONE THAT SEVERAL TIMES BEFORE REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS SAY IT'S ABOUT PREVENTING IN-PERSON VOTER FRAUD. THEIR ATTORNEY MENTIONED HOW THE LAW WOULD PROVIDE FREE PHOTO IDS AT VOTING LOCATIONS. IT JUST DOES NOT SPEAK. >> DISCRIMINATORY INTENT RACIALLY DISCRIMINATORY INTENT. TO ENACT A VOTER ID LAW THAT ALLOWS EVERYONE. >> TO VOTE. REPUBLICAN JUSTICES ASKED THE ATTORNEY REPRESENTING VOTERS FOR EVIDENCE OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST BLACK VOTERS. ONE OF THOSE JUSTICES IS THE SON OF GOP SENATE LEADER PHIL BERGER COUNCIL. IF YOU ARE INDICATING THAT THERE IS NO DIRECT EVIDENCE OF RACIAL ANIMUS. >> AND SENATE BILL ARE TIED TO THE LEGISLATIVE BILLY 24. BUT I SAID IN RESPONSE TO JUSTICE OUNCE QUESTION IS THAT THERE ARE NO STATEMENTS BY LEGISLATORS ON THE FLOOR IN THE DEBATE OVER SBA. 24, THAT EXPRESSLY SAID THAT THE PURPOSE OF THE BILL WAS TO DISENFRANCHISE AFRICAN AMERICAN VOTERS VOTING RIGHTS GROUPS BELIEVE THE MOTIVE MAY NOT BE WRITTEN IN THE LAW ARE SPOKEN IN THE LEGISLATURE, BUT THEY SAY IT'S CLEAR AND THE IMPACT OF PHOTO ID REQUIREMENT WOULD HAVE AT THE POLLS AND IT IS A FALL HARDEST ON AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS IN NORTH CAROLINA AND THAT. >> THANK YOU. BACKS OFF A CENTURY'S END DECADES OF INTENTIONAL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS. >> NOW THE STATE REPUBLICAN PARTY PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING THAT DEMOCRATS RADICAL MAJORITY ON THE PREVIOUS AND SEE SUPREME COURT NULLIFIED THE WILL OF NORTH CAROLINA VOTERS IN ORDER TO INSERT THEIR OWN PERSONAL POLITICAL AGENDA USING A TORTURED AND LAUGHABLE LEGAL THEORY. NOW IT'S THE COURT HE REVERSES THAT RULING IN MAY JUST BACK IN DECEMBER. THIS VOTER ID LAW REQUIRING A PHOTO ID COULD BE IN PLACE IN TIME FOR THE ELECTIONS IN 2024.

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