Gerrymandering case could lead to laws invalidated, criminals freed, North Carolina GOP warns.
A lawyer for the civil rights organization said GOP legislators knew that courts determined their legislative districts cheated black voters and didn't represent the people. Despite that, Republicans pushed changes to the state constitution making virtually permanent limits on income tax rates and requirements to show identification when voting, NAACP attorney Kym Hunter said.
What are"the limits for acts of a General Assembly that has been found to be the product of widespread and illegal racial gerrymandering?" Judge Reuben Young asked Warf. Hunter later took up Young's question, arguing that the GOP argument is that"however gerrymandered a General Assembly is, they can do whatever they want, however much that might further entrench their power. That is precisely what they did here."
If the amendments are invalidated because they were proposed by an invalid legislature, couldn't other laws passed during the same period also be voided?, judges asked.
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