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By<\/span> DAVE DEWITT<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In its decision to overturn North Carolina’s voter identification law last week, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals cited numerous legal precedents and hundreds of pages of testimony.<\/p>\n

In addition, the decision also cited a comedy show.<\/p>\n

In 2013, after North Carolina passed its voter ID law, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart ran a piece that included parts of an interview with Don Yelton. He was a Buncombe County Republican precinct captain and member of the party\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n

In the piece, Yelton justified the Voter ID law this way:<\/p>\n

“If it hurts the whites, so be it. If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.”<\/p>\n

Three years later, the Fourth Circuit cited that exact line from Yelton in its decision to overturn the law. On page 47, the decision read:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese statements do not prove that any member of the General Assembly necessarily acted with discriminatory intent. But the sheer outrageousness of these public statements by a party leader does provide some evidence of the racial and partisan political environment in which the General Assembly enacted the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

Late last week, Governor Pat McCrory said the state would appeal the decision.<\/p>\n

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