Supreme Court: North Carolina Republicans may intervene to defend voter ID, ballot law

6/26/22
 
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from USAToday,
6/23/22; updated 7/1/22:

Voting rights advocates expressed alarm Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider a conservative legal theory giving state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections, warning that it could erode basic tenets of American democracy.The idea, known as the “independent legislature theory,” represents to some theorists a literal reading of the Constitution.

The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed two Republican state lawmakers to intervene in a challenge to a contentious 2018 election law that would require voters in North Carolina to show photo identification at the polls.

North Carolina’s election law at the heart of the case increased the number of partisan poll observers, required voter IDs and expanded grounds to challenge a voter’s ballot. But the new requirements weren’t at issue before the Supreme Court, only whether Republican state legislative leaders could take part in the suit to defend them.

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