North Dakota, native tribes settle voter ID lawsuit to combat voter suppression.
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 Indians 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.
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