North Carolina asked the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday to put a hold on last month's federal appeals court ruling that struck down one of the nation's toughest voter ID laws. The state said "in order to avoid voter confusion" it should be allowed to enforce several parts of its law that had been in effect before a federal appeals court declared them invalid. In a blistering decision in July, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said the North Carolina legislature explicitly set out to discover what kind of accommodations minority voters use most often and then to roll back or eliminate them, targeting African Americans "with almost surgical precision." Read more http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/north-carolina-asks-supreme-court-block-voter-id-ruling-n631776
