North Carolina Court Corrects Flawed Ruling on Voter ID Law Driven by Ideology, Not Law

In a decision that did not get the attention it deserved, the newly reconstituted North Carolina Supreme Court recently reinstated, as the court said, one of “least restrictive voter identification laws in the United States.”

Liberal judges on that court—two of whom are no longer there after losing their 2022 reelection attempts—had previously thrown out the law, erroneously claiming that it was passed with discriminatory intent and that it violated the equal protection clause of the North Carolina Constitution.

In Holmes v. Harper, on April 28, the new court withdrew that prior...