From The Hague To Obama’s IRS Scandal: Meet Jack Smith, The New Special Counsel To Investigate TrumpJack Smith, appointed special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland on Friday, spent years as a prosecutor for the Department of Justice under former President Barack Obama and in the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Published: Sunday, November 27th, 2022 @ 8:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled Dec. 7 for oral arguments in Moore v. Harper, the N.C. redistricting case that has attracted national attention.
Published: Tuesday, November 8th, 2022 @ 3:17 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrats have poured millions of dollars into the Washington Senate race, a deep-blue state that recent polls suggest Republicans may take back the seat that a GOP member hasn’t occupied since 2001.
Published: Saturday, November 5th, 2022 @ 8:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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Many Americans will spend October stoking fear and building tension, with no shortage of blood-curdling screams. Then there’s Halloween.
Published: Monday, October 24th, 2022 @ 12:56 pm
By: Luka Laden
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I’m a long-time activist. I started a Tea Party group in 2009 in my area of North Carolina and have been running it ever since.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Thirteen states have filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting N.C. lawmakers' arguments in a redistricting case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 @ 7:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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From Thursday May 19 to Saturday May 22, the North Carolina Republican Party held their annual convention in Greensboro at the Koury Convention Center.
Published: Monday, May 30th, 2022 @ 7:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Pundits and politicos like to talk about “mainstream” or “main street” Republicans, as if they made up a significant percentage of today’s GOP.
Published: Thursday, May 19th, 2022 @ 10:31 am
By: Tom Campbell
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film from Citizens United
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 10:32 am
By: John Steed
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The U.S. Supreme Court backed donor privacy in a decision released Thursday, July 1.
Published: Monday, July 12th, 2021 @ 3:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I’m thinking of ordering a bumper sticker that says, “I survived the 2020 election.”
Published: Thursday, October 29th, 2020 @ 4:59 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Calls Burisma ‘the Gift that Keeps on Giving’
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2020 @ 10:29 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Democrat presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar dropped out of the race on Monday after performing poorly in the South Carolina primary over the weekend.
Published: Thursday, March 5th, 2020 @ 7:24 am
By: Daily Wire
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Paul Gessing wanted to pop the top on the soda tax in Santa Fe, New Mexico. That was all
Published: Tuesday, August 29th, 2017 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Obama administration and its fronts in the Senate accomplished what Richard Nixon wasn't able to accomplish, which was the suppression of an entire movement against him.
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 2:10 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Citizens United, or Citizens United v. FEC, is a 2010 case in which the Supreme Court struck down limits to independent political expenditures on First Amendment freedom of speech grounds
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2017 @ 1:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Experts are using terms such as "absurd," and "silly" to describe a study, and an opinion column written by one of its founders, that purports North Carolina no longer is a functioning democracy, and that North Korea and Cuba rank higher for electoral integrity than the Tar Heel State
Published: Tuesday, January 10th, 2017 @ 4:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Tonight at the National Citizen Leadership Conference (NCLC), Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) will be presented the 1st Annual Congressional Leadership Award by American Promise, the nation's leading advocacy group for overturning Citizens United v. FEC.
Published: Sunday, October 2nd, 2016 @ 9:34 am
By: Russell Allen
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We get caught up in the personalities running for office, often losing sight of the issues that should be the focus of the campaigns.
Published: Monday, September 5th, 2016 @ 6:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Today, Congressman Walter Jones (NC-3) along with Congressman Ted Lieu (CA-33) and Senator Jeff Merkley (OR) filed a complaint before the Federal Election Commission (FEC) seeking to end super PAC spending in US elections.
Published: Friday, July 8th, 2016 @ 10:00 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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week, Congressman Walter Jones (NC-3) and Congressman Jerry McNerney (CA-9) launched the bipartisan Congressional Campaign Finance Reform Caucus to address the undue influence of money on our political process
Published: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016 @ 8:38 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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However complicated you want to try to make it, the concept of free speech does not contain the right to shut other people up. Unfortunately, there is an entire movement of political activists right now who would not only disagree with my assertion but would seek to keep me from saying...
Published: Saturday, January 9th, 2016 @ 10:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In June, the US Supreme Court struck down a provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code. The Court held that, under the Fourth Amendment's prohibition of unreasonable searches and seizures, "The provision of the Los Angeles Municipal Code that requires hotel operators to make their registries...
Published: Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 @ 5:20 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Was the 2014 Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and Republican victor Thom Tillis really the most expensive race in North Carolina history, or in the country's entire election cycle last year?
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 5:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have a problem in NC over voter turnout in the midterm. We know how much money was spent by special interests to elect Thom Tillis our new Senator from NC.
Published: Sunday, February 8th, 2015 @ 9:17 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Freedom of speech is one of the core values of a free society. It ought to be appreciated and protected by Americans across the political spectrum. Unfortunately, it is not.
Published: Monday, January 26th, 2015 @ 11:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Senate race between Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan and her Republican challenger Thom Tillis looks like it's about to become the most expensive statewide race in North Carolina history.
Published: Friday, October 24th, 2014 @ 10:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three Republican candidates are battling for their party's nomination to succeed Democrat Mike McIntyre as North Carolina's 7th District Congressman. McIntyre, who held the job for nine two-year terms, chose not to seek re-election this year. He won his race two years ago by just...
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 2:58 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.”
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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In 2011, President Obama called for a more civil discourse to "make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds." Unfortunately, Gene Nichol, Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor - and former dean - at UNC-Chapel Hill's law school, appears to have no...
Published: Friday, October 18th, 2013 @ 10:51 pm
By: John William Pope Center
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There is no small irony that Republicans want to investigate left-leaning groups, because for years it was the other way around.
Published: Sunday, October 13th, 2013 @ 8:46 am
By: Tom Campbell
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For those who may not recall, the United decision reversed previous laws that banned independent political expenditures by corporations (including non-profits and unions)
Published: Saturday, March 9th, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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