A federal district judge late Thursday dismissed a constitutional challenge to a critical part of the nation’s landmark Voting Rights Act — one of two lawsuits aiming for the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. District Judge John Bates, saying an opinion would follow, issued the dismissal order in Laroque v. Holder, a suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by a group of residents of Kinston, N.C., attacking Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. A second suit — Shelby County, Ala. v. Holder — is also before Bates and a merits hearing is scheduled for Feb. 2.
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