Posted on 02/22/2019 7:26:25 PM PST by yesthatjallen
A judge in North Carolina on Friday tossed out the state's constitutional amendment requiring a voter ID, citing prevalent gerrymandering in the state's General Assembly.
Wake County Superior Court Judge G. Bryan Collins wrote in a ruling late Friday afternoon that the North Carolina General Assembly is so gerrymandered that its members do not truly represent the state's residents and thus should never have proposed a voter ID amendment in the first place.
“An illegally constituted General Assembly does not represent the people of North Carolina and is therefore not empowered to pass legislation that would amend the state’s constitution,” Collins wrote.
Collins also tossed out a second Republican-backed amendment implementing a cap on the state's income tax.
North Carolina's GOP chairman told the Raleigh News & Observer that the ruling should be overturned.
“These amendments were placed on the ballot and passed by an overwhelming majority of North Carolinians,” Robin Hayes told the newspaper. “This unprecedented and absurd ruling by a liberal judge is the very definition of judicial activism.”
North Carolina's chapter of the NAACP celebrated the decision, calling the voter ID law "racist" in a statement to the News & Observer.
“We are delighted that the acts of the previous majority, which came to power through the use of racially discriminatory maps, have been checked," Rev. Dr. T. Anthony Spearman said.
"The prior General Assembly’s attempt to use its ill-gotten power to enshrine a racist photo voter ID requirement in the state constitution was particularly egregious, and we applaud the court for invalidating these attempts at unconstitutional overreach."
Now that’s a judge that deserves to be impeached! Ludicrous!
Judges have become all powerful by just taking it
By this “reasoning”, every recent law in NC must be tossed out.
I assume this will be appealed. This read as the one of the most absurd rulings I have ever heard of. And in the current environment, that’s saying something.
What a bunch of wankers
So then, he’s saying the entire North Carolina state legislature is an illegal legislative body?
If he’s intellectually honest, then he needs to overturn every piece of legislation passed, not just this voter ID law.
We need a law that makes decisions like this a federal crime.
“An illegally constituted General Assembly does not represent the people of North Carolina and is therefore not empowered to pass legislation that would amend the state’s constitution,” Collins wrote.
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Not even hiding. This judge flat out states the entire NC legislature is invalid. Unbelievable.
Wake County.
Did this “judge” used to work as a bureaucrat for the FBI/
Let me get this straight, judges decide if legislation is constitutional, now they’re deciding whether the Constitution meets their prerogatives?
“...North Carolina General Assembly is so gerrymandered that its members do not truly represent the state’s residents...”
If they are Americans, how is that possible?
Another dictator in a black robe overturnsthe willofthe people. A lot of them will have to go.
Yankee haven.
Sorry....that is how a two year old iPad handles rapid typing. The worst thing I ever bought.
No judge should be able to throw out a Constitutional Amendment.
A County Judge can do this?
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