Legal Challenge to N.C.’s New Voting Law
Adam Stein, along with Professor Irving Joyner, the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis, and the Advancement Project, a Washington-based civil rights groups, filed the first legal challenge to H.B. 589, North Carolina’s new voting law that was signed into law on August 12, 2013. The hightly controversial law includes one of the nation’s strictest photo ID requirements, and also shortens the period for early voting, ends straight-ticket balloting and eliminates same-day registration. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the NAACP and Rosanell Eaton, alleges that H.B. 589 violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, as well as the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.