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The debate over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has revived interest in important constitutional questions: How much deference should a justice give to court precedent?
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s price tag for Medicaid expansion could be off by as much as $171.3 million, a report by the John Locke Foundation says.
Published: Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 @ 4:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Mysty Blagg’s twins, like most public school students in North Carolina, are falling behind.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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J.D. Wooten, Democratic candidate for N.C. Senate District 24, faces an ethics complaint for failing to disclose rental income.
Published: Tuesday, October 20th, 2020 @ 3:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The problem surrounds the molecular tests predominantly used to produce a “laboratory-confirmed case” of COVID-19.
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 12:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Tim Gunther, a lawyer and Wake County District Court Judge candidate, appears to be running from a district where he doesn’t live.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 2:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Discussion of the coronavirus dominated the first half-hour of the gubernatorial debate between incumbent Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper and Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Forest.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 12:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A U.S. District Court judge will not permit N.C. election officials to count absentee ballots that lack a witness signature required by law.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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For 16 years, former state Rep. Cherie Berry has served as North Carolina’s labor commissioner.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 12:03 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is hiding something, say Senate Republicans challenging a back-room, Democrat-led deal to rewrite state election laws.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 12:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In the final story of North Carolina’s 2020 election, U.S. District Judge James Dever’s name might end up securing only a footnote.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 3:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Taxes and employee benefits are at the center of the race for N.C. treasurer.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Democratic state Senate candidate J.D. Wooten rented two Greensboro houses he owns to a convicted drug dealer, according to news reports.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina, like most of the country, has become increasingly polarized in our political thinking and behavior.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 10:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As Carolina Journal has reported, the outcome of the election for three justices on the N.C. Supreme Court may determine whether state government returns to the structure it’s largely followed over the past half-century.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 8:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 12:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In an AP story Oct. 1, Nicholas Riccardi, Jonathan Drew, and Scott Bauer, discussed what they called “the unusually aggressive, hyperlocal legal strategy the Trump campaign is activating as voting begins.”
Published: Monday, October 12th, 2020 @ 4:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I spent several days with three students who are, by mandate from the governor and the Mecklenburg County school board, learning at home.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 11:55 am
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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When it comes to the state’s highest court, 2020 is a high-stakes year for N.C. Republicans.
Published: Saturday, October 10th, 2020 @ 2:36 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The pandemic and the government’s general response has exposed a curious paradox.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 10:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two lawsuits challenging the N.C. State Board of Elections’ plans for handling absentee ballots this fall head before a federal judge Thursday, Oct. 8, in Greensboro.
Published: Friday, October 9th, 2020 @ 1:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Illegally moving the goalposts. Intentionally violating North Carolinians’ civil rights.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 11:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent attempt to rewrite North Carolina elections law is just one piece of a larger plan to turn the state blue, a panel of experts say.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 3:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Virtual learning is taking a toll on Chloe Dixon’s children.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 3:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal government led by Joe Biden would look much different from the government under President Trump.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 9:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening the economy during COVID-19 is a hotly contested issue in the race for N.C. Commissioner of Labor.
Published: Wednesday, October 7th, 2020 @ 11:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the State Board of Elections’ attempt to rewrite N.C. elections law.
Published: Tuesday, October 6th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s economy, battered by COVID-19 itself as well as government’s costly attempts to contain its spread, is still struggling to recover.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 7:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Reopening schools is the top priority of Catherine Truitt, the Republican candidate for state superintendent.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Winter is coming, and small businesses are running out of time.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 1:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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To usurp means “to seize and hold (a position, office, power, etc.) by force or without legal right,” according to my copy of Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 11:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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