Election law professor Rick Hasen notes that the board and its individual members—some of whom are Republican—may be able to keep hiring outside counsel to defend the voting restrictions.
As long as they’re willing to pay for outside counsel from their own pockets, I say let 'em go for it.
They will charge the tax payers and probably get paid as well.
Elections have consequences. In this case, good ones.
Whenever I read about voter restrictions, I think fondly of the men and women fighting overseas to preserve our way of life.
This will give Art Pope a sad, which makes me happy. Stop voter suppression, it’s unconstitutional and unAmerican! (Actually, it’s historically American, but it needs to stop. I’m finishing up reading a great biography of U.S. Grant, who fought the KKK in the 19th century. You would think we have learned by now, but apparently history repeats itself.)
Good. Trying to defend the racist attempts to stack-the-deck and cheat in our small d democratic processes in court after it was struck down was simply a waste of tax-payers dollars and truly deplorable.
Glad Cooper is doing the right thing and tossing the sad legacy of McCrory and his gang of sleazeballs onto the trash heap…
Wow wow wow
Good news
That’s why Local, Regional, State are so important.
Starts there
and this:
He also announced that he is dismissing the private attorneys the state had been paying to defend the law, an effort that cost nearly $5 million in taxpayer dollars.
The Republicans did the same thing in Florida Spending 10 million of OUR tax dollars fight a Fair Districts amendment to stop the gerrymander. It was voted in with more than 70% of those pesky voters approving. We won after a three year battle
Some nerve
Their motto "We cheat to win"
I think we can see from this that there’s hope. But to achieve it will take winning local elections in defiance of the odds and barriers Rumpublicans have set.
What sanity looks like.
This is a win for America.
GOP will do whatever it takes to get this before SCOTUS…once Gorsuch is confirmed.
I’d give anything to get rid of our GOP state administration. They are the worst in the country.
And our AG is a twice indicted felon.
SMH
And that’s how it’s done folks. Beat 'em at the ballot box and then start dismantling what you can when you can.
“The South will rise again.” That’s the Battle Cry of the Confederacy.
Not only the BOE, but the legislature, can continue to defend the law. That’s what happened with the other regressive laws that got passed over the past few years. As AG, Cooper refused to defend several of them, but the General Assembly just hired its own counsel. I’m surprised, frankly, that Cooper hadn’t refused to defend the voter i.d. law.
This is one of the reasons, the DNC needs to start focusing on Statehouses and down ticket elections.
They need to reinstate Howard Dean’s 50 state strategy.
Another attempt by the Former Grumpy Old Party to rig elections (which is the only way they can win) goes down in flames, and this time no one paid to recharge the fire extinguisher! Now, if the same thing would happen in about two dozen other States.
Which, of course, it will not, because American “Government” has ceased to be constituted of that which is just, and is instead constituted by those who are willfully ignorant.
Might be a problem. Gorsuch is not scheduled to begin hearings until late March. The state has apparently filed a petition for certiorari, which has likely been scheduled for conference, which is when the justices decide whether to hear the matter. And having the governor seek to withdraw the petition gives the board limited time to seek to be, in effect, substituted for the state. The Supremes might just punt and dismiss the petition outright, killing it.
Without the governor’s backing, the legislature loses a lot of steam, and maybe the ability to keep defending the law in court. I don’t know if the legislature has standing to appeal to SCOTUS again, since Cooper is rescinding the appeal.
Say it loud, say it often. You could not be more correct.