Recusal order means NC voter ID case should soon resume

RALEIGH, N.C. -- North Carolina's highest court has declared there are two paths that an individual justice can take when weighing a request to be removed from hearing a case due to an alleged conflict of interest.

The order, filed last week by the state Supreme Court but emailed to attorneys Thursday, applies to all cases before the justices. It allows a justice to either decide on their own or ask the rest of the court to act on a recusal or disqualification motion. Whichever option is used, the ensuing ruling is final, the order said.

But this resetting of recusal procedures resulted from one of several pending legal challenges to North Carolina’s photo voter identification law. The order should allow that case, delayed in the summer and while the Supreme Court grappled with whether to alter its recusal standards, to resume soon.

Two of the seven justices are the subjects of a motion from lawyers seeking to block voter ID by having them disqualified from the case.

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