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Greetings Friend --
The Court of Appeals has reinstated the Voter ID Amendment!
In 2018, North Carolina voters approved four amendments to the state constitution.One of those amendments authorized a voter ID requirement and another lowered the cap on state income taxes from 10% to 7%.
No sooner had these amendments been approved by voters than liberal interest groups, led by the NAACP, asked a state court judge to declare them invalid.In search of a theory to nullify the votes of millions of North Carolinians, these groups argued in court that the members of the General Assembly who had voted to put these amendments on the ballot were in fact “usurpers” who has no authority to propose constitutional amendments to the people.This novel assertion was premised on the fact that a federal court had previously found some of the legislature’s districts to be unlawful gerrymanders.
On Tuesday, the Court of Appeals released its opinion inNC State Conference of the NAACP v. Moore, reversing the trial court. <[link removed]>In the principal opinion for the Court, Judge Chris Dillon explained, “[T]he overwhelming, if not universal, authority compels our conclusion that the superior court here erred in declaring that the members of our General Assembly duly elected in 2016 lacked authority to pass bills proposing amendments for the people’s consideration, a power expressly granted to our legislative branch by our state constitution.”After discussing the weaknesses in the arguments made by the liberal groups, Judge Dillon concluded by saying, “It is simply beyond [a court’s] power to thwart the otherwise lawful exercise of constitutional power by our legislative branch to pass bills proposing [constitutional] amendments.”
Judge Chris Dillon, who wrote the opinion for the majority that reinstates Voter ID is running for re-election to the Court of Appeals this year. Remember Chris Dillon when you vote!
The NC Values Coalition was the only organization to file an Amicus Brief on behalf of Berger, Moore, and North Carolina Voters. If you're interested in reading the Amicus Brief that was filed in the NCAAP v. Berger Moore NC Voter ID case, <[link removed]>click here. <[link removed]>
If you support our work fighting for your rights as voters in our successful Amicus Brief, would you please consider making a monthly or one-time donation of $5, $10, $25, $50, $75, or $100 towards the work the NC Values Coalition does in the public square? <[link removed]>
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Sincerely,
Tami Fitzgerald
NC Values
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