News & Commentary
Jul 30, 2015
Closing Arguments Set to Begin in Challenge to North Carolina's Restrictive Voting Law
Over the past weeks, we heard about the hurdles that voters faced to cast their vote under the suppressive law North Carolina instituted almost two years ago.
Jul 14, 2015
Votes Not Counted: Day One of North Carolina’s Voter Suppression Trial
The ACLU and other groups were in federal court for the first day of arguments against North Carolina’s 2013 voter suppression law, which many court observers have called the most restrictive voting law in the nation.
By Mike Meno
Jul 13, 2015
North Carolina Is Making It Harder for People to Vote, and We’re Pushing Back
Trial begins in our challenge to the North Carolina's 2013 voter suppression law, which election law expert Richard Hasen described as “the most sweeping anti-voter law in at least decades,” designed “to make it harder for people — especially non-white people . . . — to register or cast a vote.
Jun 02, 2015
North Carolina Appeals Court Hears Arguments over Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking
Yesterday, the North Carolina Court of Appeals heard arguments in Perry v. State of North Carolina, a case that asks whether the government should be allowed to track your location in real time using your cell phone without first obtaining a warrant.
May 19, 2015
Prosecutor Tells Pregnant Woman Punched in Stomach: “Assault on a Latino by a Latino” Deserves Less Protection
According to Locke Bell, the district attorney of Gaston County, North Carolina, the ethnicity of a domestic-violence survivor can disqualify that person from equal protection under the law.
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