North Dakota, native tribes settle voter ID lawsuits

Purdon said Spirit Lake's and Standing Rock Sioux's tribal councils must still approve the settlement before a federal consent decree can make the agreement binding. Purdon, who said his firm has taken on the case pro bono, said the tribes were"pleased" and that Spirit Lake members had attended the mediation talks.

The proposed agreement comes after a federal judge on Monday rejected the state's request to dismiss the tribes' lawsuit, with the case headed for trial in the coming months. The fight began when individual members of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa said they were disenfranchised in 2014 and filed a lawsuit in 2016 claiming the state's strict voter ID laws were unconstitutional.

The plaintiffs, however, did find support from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who wrote in the dissent that"the risk of voter confusion appears severe here."their lawsuitThe 2018 election was particularly high stakes in North Dakota, where Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp's seat in Congress was in jeopardy and she had won her seat in 2012 by fewer than 3,000 votes.

washingtonpost CBSNews nytimes cleveland19news That I Lawrence have inheirted billions of dollars and properties and many houses and my human father was born in Ohio, U.S.A. and my human mother was born in New Mexico, U.S.A. and I Lawrence was born in North Dakota, U.S.A. !

Would NBC ever run a headline that said 'Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Spirit Lake Nation settle voter ID lawsuit with one of those red flyover states with too many EVs nobody cares about...'? Nah, you'd put identitfy the state and spell it correctly. Do the same for us.

Hold on, one damn minute. If tribal lands are essentially independent nation/states. Why are they voting in U.S. elections? (Stand-by for the butthurt in 3,2,....)

Phony issue. Voter ID protects the integrity of all votes.

If the 2018 midterm election in ND would have been any closer, ND would never have settled.

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