THE FOCUS OF THE legal battles over the state’s voter identification law may soon shift back to federal court in the wake of a Monday ruling by the Supreme Court of Georgia directing the state court challenge be dismissed.
In Monday’s unanimous decision, the state’s highest court ruled that the sole plaintiff in the state court lawsuit, Rosalind L. Lake, doesn’t have standing to challenge the law. In so doing, the court relied on technical arguments not advanced by the state’s lawyers and not addressed at oral arguments in March.
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