RALEIGH: Yesterday, Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein filed an amicus brief in federal court that urges the court to address racial discrimination in the State senate map that violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 11:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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Alabama and South Carolina cases could set goalposts for Voting Rights Act compliance
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 8:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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Critical race theory is the idea that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that all of our institutions including the law, culture, business, the economy are all designed to maintain white supremacy.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 10:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Judicial Watch announced today Senior Attorney Russell Nobile will testify in front of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 3:25 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Margot Cleveland of the Federalist explains how the Voting Rights Act plays into the Biden administration’s challenge against Georgia’s new voting law.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Longtime observers of the state's electoral system say some North Carolina judicial districts might be unconstitutional, and ripe for legal challenges
Published: Monday, November 20th, 2017 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"North Carolina has become ground zero in the redistricting battles about how much and how little race can be used in the redistricting process."
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Two House bills intended to reduce partisan manipulation of legislative redistricting could be acted on in the short session starting in April, though retiring Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, predicted the Senate would not approve either.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett released the following statement commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 8:57 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Gov. Pat McCrory's chief legal counsel said Tuesday that the governor, a Republican, decided to hire an outside lawyer to defend a lawsuit over the state's new voter identification and election law because of public statements about the law from Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, October 27th, 2013 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Advocates for reform of the way North Carolina draws its congressional and legislative election maps are taking their arguments to audiences across North Carolina. Redistricting reformers have conducted public meetings recently in Greensboro, Fayetteville, and Charlotte, with other events...
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday struck back at the federal government, saying the U.S. Department of Justice was "working in the fringes." McCrory, a Republican, said the state would defend the lawsuit filed by the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama against the state's new election...
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is telling that when Washington decides to attack North Carolina's new voting reforms, the nation's top legal authority paints a misleading picture of those laws.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Eric Holder says it; Colin Powell says it: every NAACP "preacher" in the country says it: every Dem in the countryside says it.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:55 am
By: Jim Bispo
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Beaufort County Commissioner Gary Brinn offered the false narrative that I, somehow miraculously, had swung 180° to a position that only he could know in his "heart of hearts": 'I had decided that I was in favor of Limited Voting; it was the only way I could get elected.'
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2013 @ 3:37 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Sen. Bob Rucho said a sweeping decision by a three-judge Superior Court panel handed him and state Rep. David Lewis "a complete and utter vindication" against accusations of racism and unconstitutional gerrymandering in a lawsuit over redrawn state voting maps.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2013 @ 7:55 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In case you are living in a vaccume, this Monday morning, June 25, 2013, the United States Supreme Court turned back the hands of time by, and may have forever changed, as we know it, the way we elect our public policy decision makers.
Published: Sunday, July 7th, 2013 @ 6:27 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week, The US Supreme Court told Congress and the federal bureaucracy that it can finally stop punishing the South for The Civil War and The Jim Crow Era. The Left threw a fit.
Published: Sunday, June 30th, 2013 @ 6:36 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The U.S. Supreme Court has been the big news this week, with landmark 5-4 divided rulings.
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 2:28 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The state House has approved a bill that would remove a vestige of Jim Crow days from the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Saturday, May 18th, 2013 @ 6:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Constitution was also written to memorialize the notion that sovereign power rests with the individual and not with the federal government or any governmental agency.
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2011 @ 2:32 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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