both election integrity Constitutional amendments approved by voters
Published: Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Steed
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A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Those who follow our legislature know that each session usually has one or two initiatives for which it becomes known.
Published: Monday, September 18th, 2023 @ 7:59 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Come for Morning Wire’s Afternoon Update’s straight news, but stay for the Rapid Reactions
Published: Wednesday, August 30th, 2023 @ 12:12 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Supreme Court will look much different in 2023. Voters decided in November to oust one incumbent Democrat from the state’s highest court.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis beats President Joe Biden in a hypothetical head-to-head matchup for president 44% to 41%, according to a new Civitas poll of likely generation election voters in North Carolina.
Published: Wednesday, April 19th, 2023 @ 8:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I spoke in favor of House Bill 44, removing the literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of March 1. My prepared comments are below:
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State legislative leaders have filed new legal briefs supporting reversals of the N.C. Supreme Court's December decisions in voter ID and redistricting cases.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Both the Republican leaders of the N.C. General Assembly and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein's office have filed briefs with the N.C. Supreme Court defending the state's voter ID law.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The literacy test should be removed from the North Carolina Constitution
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Rep. Tricia Cotham, D-Mecklenburg, broke ranks with her party to support an amendment that could shift the balance of power on the N.C. State Board of Education.
Published: Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 @ 4:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court dismissed as "moot" a request to speed up proceedings in a lawsuit challenging two state constitutional amendments.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. NAACP is seeking a "writ of mandamus" from the N.C. Supreme Court. It would speed up action in a case targeting state constitutional amendments for voter ID and a lower income tax cap.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Contrary to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s contention, the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act protect the voting rights of people of all races
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Conservative, progressive, and libertarian scholars recommend a constitutional amendment that would end lifetime appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Leandro case on August 31
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 8:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Valerie Jordan, the Democrats’ nominee in the highly contested Senate District 3 election, may have made a fatal error by missing the deadline to file an appeal of a recent finding that she is not a resident of the district.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2022 @ 10:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a constitutional amendment implementing voter ID requirements may be invalid because the legislature that passed it was racially gerrymandered.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Talks continue between both the N.C. House and Senate with no imminent solution on Medicaid expansion.
Published: Sunday, August 28th, 2022 @ 9:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, argues that state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls "has no business" taking part in the Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 12:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A statement from Amy O. Cooke, CEO of the John Locke Foundation:
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 5:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This week, former President Donald Trump called on Congress to propose and ratify a 28th amendment to the constitution.
Published: Friday, July 29th, 2022 @ 8:53 am
By: Babylon Bee
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There is a growing movement in the United States to allow noncitizens to vote. Most recently, New York City passed an ordinance that would allow up to 800,000 noncitizen legal residents to vote in city elections.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling overturning constitutional amendments would invalidate statewide votes of the people
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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All seven N.C. Supreme Court justices will take part in Wednesday’s oral arguments in a high-profile challenge of the state’s new election maps.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Dallas Woodhouse, Carolina Journal investigative journalist, discusses his reporting at ExtremeInjustice.com on a controversial case involving the N.C. Supreme Court and two challenged state constitutional amendments.
Published: Sunday, January 30th, 2022 @ 5:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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