Federal District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder has issued a 485-page opinion considering Constitutional and Voting Rights Act challenges to North Carolina’s 2013 restrictive voting law, Race or Party?
This is a careful, yet controversial opinion which will almost certainly be appealed to the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, which could well reverse parts of it, and then potentially to the United States Supreme Court, where the Court could well deadlock 4-4, leaving any 4th Circuit ruling in place. And all of these appeals will have to happen in short order for it to affect how the 2016 elections take place under the Purcell principle, which says do not decide a case too close to an election.
The judge does a very thorough job going through the evidence of the law’s burdens on voters and the state’s interest in passing the law. The judge goes into the evidence in great detail, but the opinion reads like someone who is very, very skeptical of the plaintiffs’ arguments, and very forgiving in terms of the state’s interests.
CLICK HERE to read Rick Hansen's Election Law Blog for his details of the case and the judges detail opinions.
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