Matthew Continetti explains for the American Enterprise Institute why the election is unlikely to break a national political stalemate.
Published: Friday, November 13th, 2020 @ 9:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an AP story Oct. 1, Nicholas Riccardi, Jonathan Drew, and Scott Bauer, discussed what they called “the unusually aggressive, hyperlocal legal strategy the Trump campaign is activating as voting begins.”
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2020 @ 4:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The most important elections in North Carolina are the races for the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Fewer than six weeks from the 2020 general election, two of the five members of the State Board of Elections walked off the job.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2020 @ 11:48 am
By: Carolina Journal
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David Drucker of the Washington Examiner describes an anti-GOP program backed by Never-Trumpers.
Published: Friday, July 17th, 2020 @ 1:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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There was a time in March when it felt like we were all united in attacking COVID-19, but that honeymoon was short lived. By the end of April, the virus had become partisan.
Published: Thursday, June 25th, 2020 @ 1:30 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina law bans government agencies from making contracts with unions and bans public employees from striking.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 1:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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. Here’s this week’s review:
Published: Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 @ 5:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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More than a year has passed since North Carolina voters adopted a constitutional amendment requiring voters to present state-approved identification documents at the polls.
Published: Friday, February 21st, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Democratic majority in the U.S. House has approved a massive pro-labor union bill that’s unlikely to make it past the Republican-led U.S. Senate.
Published: Thursday, February 13th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislators in Virginia might not have been prepared for this kind of backlash to their proposed gun legislation.
Published: Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 @ 8:10 pm
By: LifeZette
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If they played football, they’d wear long, black jerseys, and their end zone would be a judicial bench.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The state funding targets that likely will be outlined in the WestEd report are anybody’s guess.
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The ideological and partisan stamp of the Democrat chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is evident throughout the tome
Published: Thursday, December 5th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: LifeZette
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The latest (but certainly not last) round of redistricting lawsuits is behind us.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 1:04 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In the initial disclosure form submitted to the intelligence community inspector general, the whistleblower failed to include key information about his/her contact with the office of Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff
Published: Tuesday, December 3rd, 2019 @ 1:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Congressman Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03) issued the following statement after voting against the stop gap funding bill, the Further Continuing Appropriations Act.
Published: Friday, November 22nd, 2019 @ 2:57 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court might offer voters more clues in the months ahead that will help them make choices in the 2020 elections.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 6:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Following the Common Cause v. Lewis decision last month ordering the General Assembly to redraw legislative districts, I noted that the left may find results of their victory underwhelming.
Published: Wednesday, October 30th, 2019 @ 12:00 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A three-judge N.C. Superior Court panel has tossed out North Carolina’s election maps for state House and Senate districts. The court has ordered state lawmakers to draw new maps in two weeks.
Published: Saturday, September 7th, 2019 @ 7:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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It may be weeks — perhaps months — before a three-judge panel issues a ruling on whether lawmakers drew N.C. voting districts legally, or whether the legislative districts are partisan gerrymanders.
Published: Saturday, August 3rd, 2019 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Partisan gerrymandering returns to state court Monday, July 15, for a battle that could stretch over weeks.
Published: Monday, July 15th, 2019 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Democrats held the General Assembly after the 2000 elections, as they had for nearly all of the state’s history.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 10:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has reconfigured the N.C. Court of Appeals into an 8-7 Democratic majority with his latest two appointments.
Published: Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 @ 11:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Rev. Mark Harris may know if he should plan to head to Washington, D.C. - or gear up for a new election in the contested 9th Congressional District - within a couple of weeks.
Published: Friday, February 8th, 2019 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If party labels tell the story, Chief Justice Mark Martin could end up on the losing end of a lot of N.C. Supreme Court decisions this year.
Published: Thursday, January 24th, 2019 @ 6:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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2019 was only four days old when we got the announcement the U.S. Supreme Court was going to hear arguments on North Carolina's redistricting lawsuit in March. Once again, our state will be in the political spotlight.
Published: Wednesday, January 16th, 2019 @ 3:31 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Much recent political commentary about North Carolina's Supreme Court focuses on the 5-2 majority that Democrats will gain in January
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The prospect Democrats will get their wish for a new election in the 9th Congressional District could be getting stronger
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 1:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Now that Democrats have erased the GOP's veto-proof majorities for the 2019 legislative session, Republican lawmakers could try to rush initiatives through a lame duck legislative session scheduled for Nov. 27, a top political observer says
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 2:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It was a big day yesterday. An incredible day. And last night, the Republican Party defied history to expand our Senate Majority while significantly beating expectations in the House for the midtown and midterm year.
Published: Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 @ 6:39 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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If you expected the 2018 midterm elections to settle all scores and clarify all unanswered political questions in the era of Donald Trump, you were just asking for disappointment - and that's what voters gave you
Published: Monday, November 12th, 2018 @ 2:29 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you've ever been involved in political campaigns you know there comes a point when you have drained every ounce of energy and resources available and exhausted, you declare, "it's all over but the shouting."
Published: Tuesday, November 6th, 2018 @ 12:43 am
By: Tom Campbell
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