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  1. May 2018
    1. Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional; its formulacan no longer be used as a basis for subjecting jurisdictions to pre-clearance.

      Shelby v Holder

    1. A review of these documents shows that North Carolina GOP leaders launched a meticulous and coordinated effort to deter black voters, who overwhelmingly vote for Democrats. The law, created and passed entirely by white legislators, evoked the state's ugly history of blocking African-Americans from voting - practices that had taken a civil rights movement and extensive federal intervention to stop.
    1. Argued:June 21, 2016Decided:July 29, 2016

      Opinion of the court in No. 16-1468(L), N.C. State Conference of the NAACP v. Patrick McCrory

    2. Faced with this record, we can only conclude that the North Carolina General Assembly enacted the challenged provisions of the law with discriminatory intent.
    1. The North Carolina Republican Party actually sent out a press release boasting about how its efforts drove down African-American turnout in this election.

      Key question: Did they "boast" or did they report a fact?