The fate of two approved amendments to North Carolina’s Constitution now sits in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The court spent an hour Monday morning questioning lawyers who argued for and against the amendments.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants and the N.C. Department of Justice are defending North Carolina’s voter ID law before the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The most recent N.C. Supreme Court order in a case involving challenged election maps takes up 3 1/2 pages.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 10:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein want the state Supreme Court to throw out new statewide election maps.
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 9:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Critics of North Carolina’s latest voter ID law want the N.C. Supreme Court to consider their lawsuit.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A Democrat-controlled N.C. Supreme Court could end up deciding the constitutionality of a $1.7-billion transfer ordered by the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Tar Heel State’s budget for the new biennium includes $100 million in supplemental pay for public school teachers in some of the state’s smallest, poorest counties.
Published: Tuesday, December 21st, 2021 @ 2:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Kerry Picket reports for the Washington Examiner on Republican congressional leaders’ interest in taking away power from particular Democrats.
Published: Tuesday, November 16th, 2021 @ 9:56 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Republican congressman from North Carolina would expand school choice for students across the nation facing mask mandates or classroom instruction based on Critical Race Theory.
Published: Thursday, November 4th, 2021 @ 12:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After splitting along party lines just twice in their first six months together, the current lineup of the N.C. Supreme Court has produced four more 4-3 partisan splits today.
Published: Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 @ 9:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 1st, 2021 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Betsy McCaughey writes for the New York Post about Democrats’ ongoing campaign to eliminate election rules that promote ballot integrity.
Published: Monday, August 30th, 2021 @ 8:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Senate passed a bill Monday, Aug. 9, that would make two updates to the state's charter school law.
Published: Sunday, August 29th, 2021 @ 5:47 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Members of a joint redistricting committee between the N.C. House and Senate on Tuesday, Aug. 10 heard public feedback on new criteria for drawing district maps.
Published: Wednesday, August 18th, 2021 @ 2:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Democrats are reportedly discussing the possibility of getting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) a restraining order against fellow member Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Published: Friday, June 4th, 2021 @ 10:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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Graham Piro reports for the Washington Free Beacon on one Democratic senator’s concerns about the Biden administration’s approach to unemployment.
Published: Tuesday, May 25th, 2021 @ 6:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Mica Soellner reports for the Washington Examiner about one political consequence tied to the delayed release of new U.S. census data.
Published: Saturday, March 13th, 2021 @ 8:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Watchdog Criticizes $7 Million Guilford County Will Give for Improvements Around High Point BallparkA government watchdog criticized a plan by the Guilford County Board of Commissioners that could send $7 million to High Point to help pay for improvements around Truist Point ballpark, home of the High Point Rockers minor league baseball team.
Published: Sunday, February 28th, 2021 @ 10:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With the U.S. Supreme Court shutting the door this month on future legal action, a state Supreme Court decision will continue to dictate the University of North Carolina’s compliance with public records requests linked to sexual assaults.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 12:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You might expect that the 2020 N.C. Supreme Court elections will guarantee plenty of 4-3 rulings in the year ahead.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It's a toss up.
Published: Tuesday, January 5th, 2021 @ 7:25 pm
By: LifeZette
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The year 2020 is the year of election interference and election tampering. No other presidential election (aside from the election of 1960 between Nixon and John F. Kennedy) has been fraught with such intentional, deliberate, anti-American, unconstitutional, and treasonous activities.
Published: Saturday, January 2nd, 2021 @ 7:07 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Reagan McCarthy details at TownHall.com bad news for a U.S. House speaker who already has seen a disappointing 2020.
Published: Sunday, December 27th, 2020 @ 10:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A joint statement from John Locke Foundation and Civitas Institute
Published: Thursday, December 17th, 2020 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Newby’s election completed a Republican sweep of eight statewide judicial seats, including three at the Supreme Court and five on the Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Naomi Lim of the Washington Examiner highlights GOP preparations for one aspect of a new Joe Biden presidential administration.
Published: Sunday, December 13th, 2020 @ 1:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Sunday, December 6th, 2020 @ 3:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Election season this year has been like no other.
Published: Saturday, December 5th, 2020 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"We’re going to run through the tape."
Published: Thursday, November 26th, 2020 @ 9:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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The speaker of North Carolina’s House of Representatives is set to make history next year.
Published: Wednesday, November 25th, 2020 @ 10:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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