Judges from the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday sounded ready to rule in favor of challengers to Georgia’s voter photo identification law on a key technical issue, but they were more cautious on whether the law presented an illegal burden to some citizens’ right to vote.
Oral arguments in the three-year-old case had barely begun when two of the three members of the court panel signaled that U.S. District Judge Harold L. Murphy was wrong to rule that two elderly African-American voters and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People were not injured and therefore did not have standing to sue the state.
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