A federal trial ended Thursday in the lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s photo voter identification law. A court filing suggests a ruling from US District Judge Loretta Biggs is at least weeks away.
A federal judge has scheduled a May 6 bench trial in a more than five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter identification law. The announcement of a trial date will have no impact on the use of voter ID for this year’s primary election.
Critics and supporters of North Carolina’s voter identification law will head to a federal courtroom on July 26 in Greensboro. A status conference that morning will help determine how a three-year-old federal lawsuit will proceed.
Opponents of North Carolina’s 2018 voter identification law are asking a federal judge to lift a stay that has kept their lawsuit in limbo since December 2021. They also seek a status conference with the judge to set a schedule for moving the case forward.
As N.C. officials prepare to implement a new photo voter identification requirement for this year’s municipal elections, a federal lawsuit challenging the state voter ID law has seen its first new development since last summer. Plaintiffs challenging the law have a new “counsel of record” in the federal case. She filed paperwork Thursday in U.S. District Court.
