As Donald Trump enmeshed himself in a bitter fight with the parents of an American Muslim military hero -- and Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell and John McCain looked to put distance between themselves and their party’s presidential nominee -- there’s actually worse news for Republicans.
Several important court victories for voting rights since Friday could dramatically remake the campaign for Congress and the White House, and this time, GOP leadership may have a harder time distancing themselves from un-American tactics.
When an outraged 4th Circuit Court struck down several North Carolina voting restrictions on Friday -- including a stringent voter-ID provision, tough limits on early voting and an end to same-day registration -- the panel of federal judges wrote that these “new provisions target African-Americans with almost surgical precision.” The judges stopped just short of calling the Republican legislators who crafted the laws racist, but condemned the racist result in unusually direct language. “We cannot ignore the record evidence that, because of race, the legislature enacted one of the largest restrictions of the franchise in modern North Carolina history.”
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