As the Trump administration continues without substantiation to claim “enormous evidence of voter fraud,” as White House adviser Stephen Miller said on Sunday, a darker suspicion is gaining currency: this is a thinly-disguised way to justify new voting restrictions that will suppress turnout among minority and young voters.

Both plausible and disheartening, such a scheme may well succeed. But there’s also a glimmer of light: a federal Voting Rights Act suit filed Monday in the Eastern District of North Carolina by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law with an assist from a big-time litigator at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

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