The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Court finds that the question of drawing districts is "non-justiciable"
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 12:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Panelists debating a proposed constitutional amendment creating a new state elections/ethics board offered starkly different views about the threats to separation of powers
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 9:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge Superior Court panel has found the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement is unconstitutional because it violates the governor's duty to faithfully execute laws, and approved an injunction nullifying it
Published: Sunday, October 21st, 2018 @ 9:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A three-judge Superior Court judge panel handed Gov. Roy Cooper a victory over the General Assembly in a continuing battle over appointments to state boards and commissions
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2018 @ 11:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In an unusual order likely to be appealed, a majority of a three-judge Superior Court panel removed two constitutional amendments from the Nov. 6 ballot
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 6:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The three-judge Superior Court panel reviewing two lawsuits on proposed constitutional amendments explained Monday why it put a halt until Aug. 31 on preparing and printing ballots for the Nov. 6 election
Published: Monday, August 27th, 2018 @ 2:41 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Jim Martin, and the four other living former North Carolina governors, held a news conference Monday, Aug. 13, in the State Capitol building, standing in bipartisan opposition to two constitutional amendments they say would limit executive power.
Published: Thursday, August 23rd, 2018 @ 5:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Visiting the monuments to our great national leaders on the National Mall in DC, I reflected upon our founding principles and the advice our Founders gave us.
Published: Friday, February 10th, 2017 @ 12:24 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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UNC Board of Governors Chairman John Fennebresque and Margaret Spellings, the top candidate to become UNC system president, left a recent "emergency" meeting of the board to meet with Gov. Pat McCrory, a source at the meeting told Carolina Journal. Fennebresque and Spellings were in a closed...
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2015 @ 4:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Governor Pat McCrory issued a statement following the unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel which upheld the Governor's challenge involving the use of commissions to perform regulatory responsibilities assigned to the Executive Branch.
Published: Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 @ 7:51 pm
By: Chris Downey
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Governor Pat McCrory announced today he will let the Coal Ash Management Act, passed by North Carolina's General Assembly Aug. 20, become law without his signature. The governor said that while the bill continues the aggressive approach his administration has taken to attack the coal ash issue...
Published: Wednesday, September 10th, 2014 @ 8:40 pm
By: Chris Downey
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One of the attorneys hoping to dissolve Obamacare through a lawsuit challenging the health reform act's Independent Payment Advisory Board said the deaths and mismanagement recently reported at Veterans Administration hospitals are "a great preview" of what lies in store if the health care law is...
Published: Sunday, May 25th, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Amid pushback from charter schools and concerns about violations of constitutional separation of powers, a Senate bill creating an independent public...
Published: Thursday, June 27th, 2013 @ 4:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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