“4th Circuit judges weigh Virginia voter ID with N.C. case in mind”

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U.S. Court of Appeals panel wrestled here Thursday over how to treat Virginia’s voter ID law following a circuit decision that nullified a similar law in North Carolina.

That decision was made by a different three-judge panel on the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, but its precedent looms large in Virginia’s case.

Judge Dennis W. Shedd particularly questioned attorneys during oral arguments Thursday over how closely the cases mirror each other. He probed an attorney for the State Board of Elections over whether the court should send this case back to U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson and tell him to reconsider it in light of the July North Carolina decision.

Hudson backed Virginia’s law in May, saying the state Democratic Party failed to prove that Virginia’s law targets minority voters.

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