Legal Opinion
League of Women Voters of North Carolina v. North Carolina
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided October 1, 2014No. 14-1845, 14-1856, 14-1859PublishedCited by 303 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed in part, affirmed in part,- and remanded with instructions by published opinion. Judge WYNN wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge FLOYD joined. Judge MOTZ wrote a dissenting opinion.
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
The right to vote is fundamental. “No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.” Wesberry v. Sanders, 376 U.S. 1, 17, 84 S.Ct. 526, 11 L.Ed.2d 481 (1964). And a tight time-frame before…
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