Supreme Court Declines To Hear NC Voter ID Case

WUNC News | By Anita Rao,

Published May 15, 2017 at 12:17 PM EDT

The Supreme Court announced this morning that it will not review North Carolina’s controversial 2013 voter ID law.

This leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals last summer that struck down the law, citing that certain provisions target African-Americans “with almost surgical precision.” Republican lawmakers appealed the ruling.

WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii talks about the Supreme Courts decision not to hear the North Carolina voter ID law.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC Capitol Bureau Chief Jeff Tiberii about the latest.

Anita Rao

Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.

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Frank Stasio

Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.

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