{"id":1526874,"date":"2022-06-23T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526874"},"modified":"2022-06-23T14:04:09","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T18:04:09","slug":"supreme-court-rules-for-republicans-in-voter-id-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-rules-for-republicans-in-voter-id-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rules For Republicans In Voter ID Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-rules-for-republicans-in-voter-id-dispute%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526874&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court delivered a win Thursday for Republicans in North Carolina over a voter identification law that has been in dispute for nearly four years.<\/p>\n<p>The court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/21-248_4fc5.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruled<\/a> 8-1 that legislative leaders in the state can intervene in a federal lawsuit to defend a law mandating voter ID. The case began in 2018 after North Carolina voters voted to amend the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/12\/21\/north-carolina-voter-id-roy-cooper-veto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">state\u2019s constitution<\/a> to require voters provide identification. Lawmakers then passed a law requiring voters show either a driver\u2019s license, passport, or other approved local government identifications.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Supreme Court rules 8-1 that GOP lawmakers in North Carolina can intervene in litigation to defend a state voter-ID law. The NAACP is challenging the law, and the NC attorney general (a Democrat) is defending it. GOP legislators want to intervene anyway. SCOTUS says they can.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCOTUSblog\/status\/1539971941183827968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed the legislation despite 55% of the state\u2019s voters approving the measure. The legislature overrode the veto. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/06\/23\/supreme-court-second-amendment-concealed-carry-new-york\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Supreme Court Delivers Massive Win For Gun Owners)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The state NAACP and local chapters sued in federal court, arguing the law discriminated against black and Latino voters, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-ruling-voting-rights-north-carolina-f01a5a9fb90996f2e4137c1f84618b04?utm_source=Twitter&#038;utm_medium=AP&#038;utm_campaign=SocialFlow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Associated Press (AP). Speaker of the House Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger wanted to intervene in the lawsuit, arguing the state\u2019s attorney general, Democrat Josh Stein, wouldn\u2019t defend the law to the extent that they would, according to the AP. A federal judge ruled against the lawmakers. A three-judge federal appeals court panel then ruled in favor of the legislators before the full court reversed the decision, according to the AP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough the General Assembly, the people of North Carolina have authorized the leaders of their legislature to defend duly enacted state statutes against constitutional challenge. Ordinarily, a federal court must respect that kind of sovereign choice, not assemble presumptions against it,\u201d the Court ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the sole dissenter, argued the interests of the legislator were being defended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStates are entitled to structure themselves as they wish and to decide who should represent their interests in federal litigation,\u201d Sotomayor wrote. \u201cState law may not, however, override the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by requiring federal courts to allow intervention by multiple state representatives who all seek to represent the same state interest that an existing state party is already capably defending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The law itself is set to have its day in the state\u2019s Supreme Court as well, but the court has yet to set a date for oral arguments, according to the AP. The law was previously blocked by a <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/race-and-ethnicity-nc-state-wire-lawsuits-us-news-elections-6e80e07bd6abc15e1d3beb15db73a167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">federal court<\/a> that ruled the law was discriminatory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court delivered a win Thursday for Republicans in North Carolina over a voter identification law that has been in dispute for nearly four years.The court ruled 8-1 that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}