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Keep an eye on this potential shift in "The Law"
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2024 @ 9:49 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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The full slate of 4th Circuit US Court of Appeals judges offered Thursday contrasting views over a dispute involving North Carolina State Health Plan coverage for transgender health care.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 6:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina blasted a teachers union boss on Wednesday for comparing the parental rights movement to proponents of segregation.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:12 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Supreme Court is in the midst of hearing two cases which could enable them to roll back affirmative action colleges and universities use for admissions.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 5:33 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. solicitor general, the federal government's top Supreme Court lawyer, will take part in oral arguments for a case involving race in UNC admissions.
Published: Friday, September 16th, 2022 @ 3:28 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Make no mistake, abortion on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result (referring to Roe v. Wade) has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The group Students for Fair Admissions claims that UNC is using the same arguments as 1950s-era segregationists to defend its race-based admissions policy.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 11:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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New reports suggest that Chief Justice John Roberts lobbied hard to prevent the more conservative members of the Supreme Court — namely Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — from voting to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Published: Saturday, August 6th, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
By: Daily Wire
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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Secretary of Labor, acting through the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), enacted a vaccine mandate on November 5, 2021 for much of the Nation's work force.
Published: Saturday, February 5th, 2022 @ 12:09 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Claims that public charter schools encourage segregation grow louder every day.
Published: Tuesday, June 22nd, 2021 @ 6:24 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This article comes from a few remarks I made to introduce my last TEA Party meeting.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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I grew up in the “separate but equal” school era, although we knew Black schools weren’t equal. The 1954 Supreme Court decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ruled that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional.
Published: Thursday, July 25th, 2019 @ 7:53 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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The case District of Columbia v. Heller is the landmark Supreme Court case decided in 2008, and written by the late great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, which finally looked at the roots and origins of the Second Amendment.
Published: Wednesday, July 17th, 2019 @ 12:45 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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The term "birthright citizenship" refers to the idea that you can become a citizen of a country simply by being born there.
Published: Friday, November 23rd, 2018 @ 10:59 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified 150 years ago—on July 9, 1868
Published: Saturday, September 1st, 2018 @ 12:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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House Bill 514, which would allow four cities in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district to create and run their own charter schools, passed its initial vote in the Senate, 30-20
Published: Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 @ 4:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A bill allowing a few towns to operate their own charter schools is closer to becoming law
Published: Tuesday, June 5th, 2018 @ 12:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Despite the 4th Circuit decision striking down the NC Voter ID law, there are options that our Governor, Pat McCrory, and our state legislature can take to provide reasonable and common-sense measures at polling places next month.
Published: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Governor Pat McCrory said he is pleased work has begun to place a monument honoring African Americans at the State Capitol.
Published: Friday, January 22nd, 2016 @ 12:09 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Governor Pat McCrory honored two pioneer civil rights families as well as three student scholars from North Carolina A&T at the State Employee Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration at First Baptist Church in downtown Raleigh.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2016 @ 5:08 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Reporting about U.S. Supreme Court debates often revolves around disagreements between liberal and conservative voting blocs
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court gave a boost to school choice efforts on Thursday by declaring that the state's fledgling Opportunity Scholarships Program met constitutional muster.
Published: Thursday, July 30th, 2015 @ 4:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Thomas Jefferson wondered how the country would respond in the case its government passed a law that was clearly unconstitutional.
Published: Friday, July 24th, 2015 @ 5:11 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Civitas Institute Center for Law and Freedom functions as North Carolina's conservative public interest law firm. In this capacity, we provide legal and educational services at no cost as a part of the Civitas Institute's overall charitable mission. To better understand who CLF is and what we...
Published: Saturday, June 27th, 2015 @ 5:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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North Carolina Central University's College of Behavioral and Social Sciences held its second annual "Great Debate" last week in front of a packed audience of students, professors, and administrators. "HBCUs: Can They Survive?" was the topic of this year's debate, which featured student teams...
Published: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 @ 8:47 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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Governor Umstead (pictured here) allowed the "Governor's Special Advisory Committee on Education" to respond to the Brown decision. Image courtesy of the State Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 8:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Umstead appointed a biracial committee to study the most effective way to accomplish integration in North Carolina schools.
Published: Sunday, March 9th, 2014 @ 11:41 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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