Legal Opinion
Raleigh Wake Citizens Assoc v. Wake County Board of Elections
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 1, 2016No. 16-1270, 16-1271PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed and remanded in part and affirmed in part by published opinion. Judge WYNN wrote the majority opinion, in which Judge GREGORY joined. Judge MOTZ wrote a dissenting opinion.
WYNN, Circuit Judge:
The right to vote is “fundamental,” and once that right “is granted to the electorate, lines may not be drawn which are inconsistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 104-05, 121 S.Ct. 525, 148 L.Ed.2d 388 (2000) (quotation marks and citation omitted). “It must be remembered that” the right to vote “can be denied by a debasement or dilution…
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