America’s worst voter suppression law dies in the Supreme Court
The most aggressive voter suppression law in the nation — possibly the most aggressive such law since Jim Crow — is dead.

The Supreme Court announced on Monday that it would not hear North Carolina v. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, a challenge to North Carolina’s omnibus voter suppression law. As the law was struck down by the lower court, that means this law is finally staked, dead, and buried.
So that’s the good news for supporters of voting rights. The bad news is that Chief Justice John Roberts wrote a brief opinion strongly implying that laws like this one could survive review before the Republican-controlled Supreme Court. Indeed, it is likely that the only reason why North Carolina’s law lies in the ground today is because the states’ voters elected a Democratic governor and a Democratic attorney general who maneuvered to kill this appeal to the Supreme Court.
The issue in North Carolina was nothing short of whether the justices would legalize many forms of racial voter discrimination.
In 2013, North Carolina enacted the law that is widely viewed as the most aggressive voter suppression law in the nation. Before voting on the final law, as a federal appeals court that struck much of it down explained, the state legislature “requested data on the use, by race, of a number of voting practices,” then used this data to shape the law in order to increase its impact on black voters and minimize its impact on white voters.
The state, for example, did not simply enact a voter ID provision — a common method of voter suppression — but also “amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs used by African Americans,” while simultaneously retaining “only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians were more likely to possess.”
Similarly, after discovering that “African Americans disproportionately used the first seven days of early voting,” the state legislature amended the bill to “eliminate the first week of early voting.”
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