WataugaWatch: New Federal Legal Action Against the Voter Photo ID Law

Friday, December 21, 2018

New Federal Legal Action Against the Voter Photo ID Law

The North Carolina NAACP and six of its local branches sued in federal court yesterday to stop the new voter photo ID law. Federal court. The lawsuit on Wednesday by the Southern Coalition for Social Justice was filed in state court. Coming at this thing from two different avenues.

We're told that the state's constitution is more definitive about voter rights than the US Constitution, but we'll take whatever relief we can get.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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