North Carolina Republican lawmakers have answered a three-judge panel ruling earlier this month with a new congressional map that makes changes to all 13 districts and looks very different from the map it replaced. Since the unveiling, Gov. Pat McCrory has called the General Assembly back into a spe
Published: Saturday, May 7th, 2016 @ 12:10 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Absentee voting began today in 16 congressional primaries across the state after a federal court in February ordered legislators to redraw district lines. Election day is June 7 and will include a statewide primary for N.C. Supreme Court
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2016 @ 3:15 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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State Board of Elections officials say charges that North Carolina's new voter ID requirement led to long wait times at the polls and unnecessary confusion that harmed voters are off target
Published: Sunday, March 20th, 2016 @ 6:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Full disclosure: I don't have a "favorite" candidate in the current presidential contest
Published: Thursday, March 17th, 2016 @ 10:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton won easily against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary, while casino mogul Donald Trump staved off a late surge by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to claim victory in the GOP presidential contest
Published: Wednesday, March 16th, 2016 @ 11:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Chief Justice John Roberts has allowed the lower court ruling on North Carolina's congressional districts stand.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2016 @ 10:26 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The circus came to Raleigh this week - not the farewell tour of thick-skinned pachyderms - but one in which other elephants were in the center ring.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 @ 1:36 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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A Virginia congressional redistricting case expected to be argued March 21 before the U.S. Supreme Court could suggest the eventual outcome of North Carolina's similar congressional redistricting dispute
Published: Monday, February 29th, 2016 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys representing the state of North Carolina in the Harris v. McCrory lawsuit - in which earlier this month a three-judge federal district court panel threw out the congressional districts drawn in 2011
Published: Saturday, February 27th, 2016 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court will take a second look at a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's 2011 redistricting plan, as the state made an emergency appeal to the justices to stay a trial-court order invalidating the 1st and 12th Congressional Districts
Published: Wednesday, February 24th, 2016 @ 7:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The General Assembly on Friday approved a broad array of electoral changes including a separate June 7 congressional primary and new congressional district boundaries before adjourning the two-day special session Gov. Pat McCrory had called.
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2016 @ 11:57 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters, candidates, and political partisans exchanged sharply divided views and occasional vitriol Monday in a marathon public hearing about North Carolina congressional redistricting in the wake of a federal court decision placing the scheduled March 15 primary in jeopardy
Published: Thursday, February 18th, 2016 @ 2:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, the Second District GOP primary race for 2016 is getting7_number to be quite a crowded affair. We've all known incumbent Renee Ellmers was running for reelection. We've known about challengers Jim Duncan, Kay Daly and Frank Roche.
Published: Sunday, January 10th, 2016 @ 3:31 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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Greensboro minister Mark Walker stunned Rockingham County District Attorney Phil Berger Jr. in Tuesday’s runoff for the 6th Congressional District Republican nomination.
Published: Saturday, July 19th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It appears that Raleigh-based radio talk show host Frank Roche will be jumping into the 2014 Second Congressional District GOP primary. The district is currently represented by Republican Renee Ellmers of Dunn.
Published: Tuesday, September 24th, 2013 @ 2:40 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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The groping and sexual aggression of Ted Kennedy and Chris Dodd -- or the Oval Office intern molestations perpetrated by Bill Clinton -- didn't do anything to paint the Democrat Party as "anti-woman."
Published: Wednesday, April 24th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: Brant Clifton
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