North Carolina’s Republican-controlled legislature should be allowed to step in to advocate for a voter ID law in court because Josh Stein, the state’s Democratic attorney general, is not doing enough to defend the statute, the Supreme Court heard March 21. Republicans generally favor strengthening electoral integrity measures such as requiring photo identification by voters; Democrats generally oppose photo IDs, arguing that the requirement is overly burdensome and disenfranchises voters. Republican lawmakers complain that Stein’s advocacy has been half-hearted and has focused on technical issues instead of countering the oft-repeated left-wing claim that voter ID laws are racially discriminatory. The case has drawn comparisons with Cameron v. EMW Women’s Surgical Center, in which the high court ruled 8-1 on March 3 that Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron, a Republican, should be allowed to defend a state law restricting abortion after the state’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, refused to do so. The …