(Reuters) – North Carolina’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on Thursday filed a federal lawsuit against a voter identification law enacted a day earlier by the state’s lame-duck Republican-dominated legislature.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court in North Carolina under the Voting Rights Act and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, which govern the conditions under which people are defined as citizens and allowed to vote, according to the civil rights organization.
“This is a brazen effort by a lame-duck, usurper legislature to once again legislate voter suppression,” Irv Joyner, Legal Redress Chair of the NC NAACP, said in a statement…
