North Carolina Tells Supreme Court It’s Giving Up Fight Over ‘Jim Crow’ Voting Law

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) announced Tuesday he was drop­ping his state’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court over a 2013 vot­ing bill that a fed­er­al appeals court called the most restric­tive in the state “since the era of Jim Crow.”

Last year, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4^th Circuit struck down a North Carolina bill that required res­i­dents to show pho­to ID at the polls, short­ened ear­ly vot­ing and elim­i­nat­ed same-day reg­is­tra­tion. The court ruled that the law inten­tion­al­ly dis­crim­i­nat­ed against African Americans “with almost sur­gi­cal pre­ci­sion.” With days left in his admin­is­tra­tion, for­mer Gov. Pat McCrory ®, whom Cooper defeat­ed last year, appealed the rul­ing to the Supreme Court.

Just last week, lawyers retained by McCrory filed a brief urg­ing the high court to agree to hear the case, and the jus­tices are set to con­sid­er the state’s peti­tion at their pri­vate con­fer­ence on March 3. In the lead-up to last November’s elec­tion, the Supreme Court denied an emer­gency request from North Carolina to allow it to enforce the restric­tive vot­ing law.

But on Tuesday, Cooper announced that he and North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein (D) had noti­fied the court that they’re with­draw­ing the appeal altogether.
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