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As the Islamic Entente seeks to destroy the state of Israel with a multi-spectral, multi-front war of annihilation, we are reminded of the scribbling of Fusion in July, 2001. He postulated that the new century would see "The Final Jihad" commence .
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:09 am
By: The Correspondent
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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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The John Locke Foundation and N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law label a proposed forced money transfer in the Leandro case "unconstitutional."
Published: Friday, August 5th, 2022 @ 4:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments during the week of Aug. 29 in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Monday, June 6th, 2022 @ 4:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Plaintiffs seeking $785 million in new state education spending are renewing their appeals to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, June 1st, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson issued an order stating that the state budget fell short of the Leandro comprehensive remedial plan by $785 million.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 2:15 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today Judge Michael Robinson held his first substantive hearing as the presiding judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 11:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Plaintiffs and N.C. Justice Department lawyers are urging a judge to order $795 million in new state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, April 13th, 2022 @ 1:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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During his oversight of the Leandro case, Judge David Lee failed to scrutinize the comprehensive remedial plan that bears his signature
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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We do not know why North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby used his legal authority to assign oversight of the Leandro v. State of North Carolina case to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders argue there’s no good reason for the N.C. Supreme Court to step into a dispute now over $1.7 billion in court-ordered education funding.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 8:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina continues to wait and see if the state Supreme Court will address a trial judge’s $1.7 billion education funding order.
Published: Monday, January 10th, 2022 @ 8:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Judge David Lee's Leandro ruling is not a moral crusade. It's a money grab.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 8:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Controller Linda Combs is going to court to block a recent ruling in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Our legal team has reviewed Judge Lee's order, and because of the Attorney General's conflict, we have requested and received authorization to pursue outside counsel for this matter.
Published: Tuesday, December 7th, 2021 @ 11:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, Judge Lee trampled the North Carolina constitution and embraced a brazen scheme to sidestep the elected members of the General Assembly and raid the public purse.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A retired Union County judge is trying to leapfrog the Republican-led N.C. General Assembly by ordering a $1.7 billion transfer from the state’s coffers to fund public education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 6:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The plaintiffs in the long-running Leandro school funding case have asked the court to bypass the legislature and order the state government to transfer $1.7 billion to begin funding components of the plan.
Published: Sunday, November 28th, 2021 @ 12:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Should Democrats on the State Supreme Court make the highly partisan and controversial move of forcing two Republican State Supreme Court Justices off a critical case to decide the fate of voter-approved state constitutional amendments requiring voter ID and lowering the maximum income tax rate.
Published: Thursday, November 18th, 2021 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case could issue an order as early as three weeks compelling the General Assembly to fully fund a court-ordered plan drawn up by California-based consultants.
Published: Monday, November 15th, 2021 @ 9:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Every columnist keeps a "clip file"- articles, stories or ideas from which to write future pieces. Sometimes that file becomes so full it's hard to choose just one topic on which to write.
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 11:13 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Republican budget writers in the General Assembly are bristling after the judge in the long-running Leandro school funding case set an arbitrary deadline of Oct. 18 for lawmakers to fund the court-ordered plan.
Published: Monday, October 25th, 2021 @ 4:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The judge in the ongoing Leandro school funding case has signed an order that attempts to compel the General Assembly to fund the components of the Comprehensive Remedial Plan agreed to by both the defendants and plaintiffs in the case last year.
Published: Monday, June 21st, 2021 @ 11:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Superior Court Judge David Lee, the presiding jurist in the decades-long Leandro lawsuit, said at a hearing Tuesday, April 13 that he won’t tell lawmakers how to spend money on public education.
Published: Wednesday, April 21st, 2021 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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At the beginning of September, North Carolina got its latest development in the decades’ long Leandro case.
Published: Saturday, September 12th, 2020 @ 5:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Judge David Lee, the overseer of the Leandro case, approved a plan Tuesday, Sept. 1, calling for millions more in education spending to meet North Carolina’s constitutional obligation to provide a sound, basic education to every child.
Published: Thursday, September 3rd, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Yesterday the State Board of Education and members of Governor Cooper’s administration submitted an action plan to Superior Court Judge David Lee as part of the ongoing work to ensure the state is compliant with the constitutional requirements of the long-running Leandro case.
Published: Friday, June 19th, 2020 @ 2:36 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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This week, the plaintiffs and the defendants in the Leandro v. North Carolina case submitted their action plan to Superior Court Judge David Lee, who was appointed four years ago to oversee the state’s compliance with the 26-year-old case.
Published: Thursday, June 18th, 2020 @ 3:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Leandro v. State of North Carolina casts a long shadow over the public schools in the Tar Heel state.
Published: Saturday, May 23rd, 2020 @ 11:12 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Many North Carolinians assume that the elected superintendent of public instruction is the head of the state's public schools.
Published: Sunday, February 16th, 2020 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sen. Deanna Ballard, R-Watauga, wants the presiding judge in the Leandro case to share his perspective on education policy before the Senate Education Committee.
Published: Tuesday, February 11th, 2020 @ 12:22 am
By: Carolina Journal
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