NEW YORK (July 29, 2016) -- National Urban League President and CEO Marc H. Morial today issued the following statement following a federal court's invalidation of North Carolina's discriminatory "monster" voter ID law:
"Thanks to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, voters of color, young people and senior citizens can exercise their Constitutional right in this Presidential election free of the undue burden of a law designed to disenfranchise them.
"It's no accident that a wave of discriminatory voter suppression laws swept the country immediately following the first Presidential election in which the Black voting rate surpassed the white rate. The moment the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, lawmakers in North Carolina and other states wasted no time in demonstrating exactly why it was necessary in the first place.
"These laws must be relegated to the dustbin of history with relics like Jim Crow. The Fourth Circuit decision is a righteous step but we must continue to urge lawmakers, judges and activists to keep up the fight until every voter in every state has a clear and unobstructed path to the polls."
