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Impact of court ruling against No. Carolina voter I.D. laws

Clip: 7/29/2016 | 6m 21s

A federal appeals court has struck down North Carolina’s stringent voting rules.

A federal appeals court has struck North Carolina’s stringent voting rules that, among other things, required voters to show I.D. before voting. “The new provisions target African Americans with almost surgical precision," the judges said. The Justice Department and the NAACP had sued the state’s legislature. William Brangham talks with Kareem Crayton, Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University.

07/29/2016 | Rating NR

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