Law360 (February 25, 2019, 4:47 PM EST) -- North Carolina's voter-approved constitutional amendments lowering the state’s income tax rate cap and imposing a voter identification requirement have been invalidated, with a state court finding the gerrymandered General Assembly lacked the authority to place the measures on the ballot. In a Friday ruling, Wake County Superior Court Judge G. Bryan Collins Jr. said the makeup of the Legislature that approved the amendments for the 2018 general election was tainted because the U.S. Supreme Court held that 28 of the state’s legislative districts resulted from an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. “An illegally constituted General Assembly does not represent the people of North...

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