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The Supreme Court announced on Wednesday that it will accept a case filed by two prominent Republicans in North Carolina who want to join the state’s stringent voter status law in the legal defense.

North Carolina Republican House Speaker Tim Moore and Republican Senate leader Phil Berger want to formally intervene in a pending federal case challenging the law, arguing that the Democratic State Attorney General Josh Stein will not proceed properly. defend.

In November 2018, a referendum as a constitutional amendment approved a law requiring voters in Tar Heel State to show photo identification when they arrive at a polling station.

The measure was formally promulgated by legislators next month, overturning Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto power in the process.

In September, a three-judge panel of the North Carolina High Court ruled that the law deliberately discriminated against black voters as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court’s decision to accept the case will not affect the state court’s ruling on the constitutionality of the law, but will only determine whether the legislator can participate in the case.

Wednesday’s order was issued after the state legislature submitted a request to review the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling that Moore and Berger were unable to intervene to defend the law.

Stein had asked the Supreme Court not to accept the case because North Carolina "has been actively defending the law in question."

The North Carolina Supreme Court is hearing a third case questioning how legislators included constitutional amendments in the ballot.

The case is Berger v. The North Carolina Conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The argument may take place sometime early next year, and a ruling may be made before the summer.