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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Biden assault on democracy continues to build as he ramps up dictatorship
Published: Friday, April 19th, 2024 @ 8:26 am
By: John Steed
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) took a shot at President Joe Biden on Thursday over the prospect of the administration using executive powers to address the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border as the commander-in-chief revs up his campaign to get re-elected this November.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 11:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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Superior Court judges from Granville, Johnston, and Richmond counties will oversee Gov. Roy Cooper's lawsuit challenging a law that takes away some of his appointment powers.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 12:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge Superior Court panel appointed by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby will consider Gov. Roy Cooper's latest lawsuit against state legislative leaders.
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2024 @ 11:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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US Sen. Ted Budd and Rep. Dan Bishop have signed on to a US Supreme Court friend-of-the-brief challenging "Chevron deference." That's a legal doctrine that calls on judges to defer to administrative agencies' interpretations of federal law.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 3:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) fired off a letter on Wednesday to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, voicing concerns about her “prosecutorial conduct” and how it appeared to be an exercise in “advancing a political cause and her own notoriety.”
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 12:14 am
By: Daily Wire
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Arizona v. Mayorkas
Published: Friday, May 19th, 2023 @ 10:42 am
By: Countrygirl1411
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When the Affordable Care Act was passed it contained an option for states to extend Medicaid coverage to adults with an income up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level, beginning in January 2104.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:58 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The North Carolina general assembly will be back in session on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, and much will be asked of them here in this Age of Coronavirus.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 3:29 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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At the John Locke Foundation we have been highly critical of Gov. Roy Cooper’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis ever since he issued his first lockdown order in March of 2020
Published: Saturday, January 1st, 2022 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Six hundred days and counting. Gov. Roy Cooper has ruled North Carolina with a proverbial iron fist since unilaterally enacting a state of emergency March 10, 2020.
Published: Monday, November 22nd, 2021 @ 3:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With his state of emergency declaration now surpassing 600 days, Governor Cooper vetoed House Bill 264, the Emergency Powers Accountability Act, which seeks to strengthen and clarify current emergency management laws to restore checks and balances over the governor’s executive powers.
Published: Wednesday, November 17th, 2021 @ 10:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers Argue No One Person Should Have Unilateral Authority to Shut Down State for Indefinite Time — Regardless of Party
Published: Sunday, April 4th, 2021 @ 10:38 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Locke’s Terry Stoops shares North Carolina’s story with the rest of the country, via National Review Online.
Published: Thursday, March 11th, 2021 @ 9:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper is setting the stage to have even stronger powers if he chooses to impose new COVID-19 rules, a legal scholar tells Carolina Journal.
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2020 @ 10:06 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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The post of lieutenant governor is a constitutional office in North Carolina, and the only one empowered to exercise both legislative and executive powers.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 8:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer's inane approach to the virus has the state up in arms against her.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 9:12 pm
By: LifeZette
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On Sunday, radio host Rush Limbaugh made a rare appearance on television, this time on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 11:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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There are three theories, perhaps even four, upon which President Trump can close our southern border, including providing a permanent, physical barrier.
Published: Friday, January 18th, 2019 @ 10:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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A perplexing recent comment from North Carolina's attorney general suggests now might be a good time for a refresher course about the way people exercise power in our system of government
Published: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be easy to dismiss the recurring political battles between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly as pure partisan posturing
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With labor participation, wages, and job growth all on the rise, we are seeing firsthand how President Trump's economic policies are benefiting American workers.
Published: Tuesday, May 8th, 2018 @ 9:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Even without television, telephones or telegraphs word spread quickly throughout the colonies about the fighting that took place between the British and Colonials at Lexington and Concord in April 1775
Published: Tuesday, June 6th, 2017 @ 8:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper gave General Assembly Republicans a Memorial Day weekend present: yet another legal challenge to legislation the governor claims unconstitutionally limits his executive powers
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article will explain why the Executive Order and the temporary travel ban is legal and appropriate and why I think it will ultimately be upheld.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 @ 2:27 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Paul Craig Roberts takes a look at the document that holds the states in a Union and questions whether the legal bonds still exist.
Published: Monday, April 11th, 2016 @ 9:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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As the Resolutions Chair for the Pitt County GOP, I wrote a series of resolutions that I plan to present at the upcoming 2014 Pitt County GOP Convention, on March 8.
Published: Saturday, March 1st, 2014 @ 3:44 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The NC Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) recently published an article about nullification, asserting that it not a legitimate constitutional remedy.
Published: Sunday, September 23rd, 2012 @ 4:41 am
By: Diane Rufino
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