.thereidout Blog: Bringing on the lawyers who tried to uphold some of the most repressive voting rights laws in recent history is an endorsement of GOP voting misconduct.
that North Carolina officials illegally used race as a predominant factor when they drew those maps during the 2011 redistricting period.several policies cut by the 2013 law, including same-day voter registration and the right of voters to cast provisional ballots outside their home precincts. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the North Carolina law would “target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.
The legal defenders of these oppressive measures are exactly the type of people Ohio Republicans want on their team as they defend themselves against multiple lawsuits alleging illegal gerrymandering. The Capital Journal reported that the GOP leaders also brought on lawyer John Branch, whoMultiple lawsuits
have been filed in response to Ohio’s GOP-drawn maps. If those lawsuits are unsuccessful, Ohio Republicans will have found the anti-democratic legal linguists they need to defend their restrictive measures in court. And we can expect other Republican-led legislatures would take their cue.
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