An NBC News Op-Ed
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On Monday, May 15th, after four long years of struggle, our Moral
Movement in North Carolina won a major victory against the strategy of
Republican extremists who are determined to subvert democracy in
America.
Writing on behalf of the Supreme Court, Chief
Justice John Roberts denied a petition to review the 4th Circuit Court's
ruling that North Carolina lawmakers acted with "discriminatory intent"
when they passed an omnibus voting bill "targeting African-Americans
with almost surgical precision."
The lower court's ruling stands as the last
word in NC NAACP vs. McCrory, vindicating the hundreds of people who
were willing to go to jail and the tens of thousands who protested this
effort to suppress the vote in North Carolina.
For anyone concerned about the extremism in
Washington, D.C. today, the past four years in North Carolina may be
instructive. We have met the sons of Jim Crow who went to law school and
became James Crow, Esquire. But we have also learned how to stop them.
As the basic institutions of democracy are under assault in America
today, we need a Moral Movement to stand against deconstruction.
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