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three-judge panel will decide in the coming weeks whether it will maintain jurisdiction over a lawsuit challenging two 2018 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution. The panel spent nearly 90
The state NAACP wants a single Wake County judge to proceed with a lawsuit challenging two state constitutional amendments voters approved in 2018. One mandates voter ID. The other lowers the cap on state income tax rates. The case does not affect North Carolina’s current law requiring ID for voters.
A lawsuit challenging two 2018 amendments to the North Carolina Constitution is heading to a three-judge panel. One amendment places a photo voter identification requirement into the constitution. The other lowers an existing cap on state income tax rates. Wake County Superior Court Judge Graham Shirley issued the transfer order Wednesday. Republican state legislative leaders had requested the shift.
With a party-line 4-3 vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court have ruled that voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be tossed because they were placed on the ballot by a “gerrymandered” legislature. Republican justices objected. Though Friday's decision did not officially kill the amendments, “the majority nullifies the will of the people and precludes governance by the majority,” according to dissenters.