North Carolina asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to put a hold on
last month's federal appeals court ruling that struck down one of the
nation's toughest voter ID laws.
The state said "in order to avoid voter
confusion" it should be allowed to enforce several parts of its law that
had been in effect before a federal appeals court declared them
invalid.
In a blistering decision in July, the Fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals said the North Carolina legislature explicitly
set out to discover what kind of accommodations minority voters use most
often and then to roll back or eliminate them, targeting African
Americans "with almost surgical precision."
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