The North Carolina Home Builders Association is asking Superior Court judges to reject Gov. Roy Cooper's request for an injunction against new laws dealing with appointments to government boards.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 7:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Texas is arresting illegal immigrants for trespassing in Shelby Park as the state continues to defy the Biden administration’s demands that it cede control of the park back to federal authorities.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 8:37 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Tuesday, the North Carolina General Assembly overrode five bills that had been vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper. Since the legislature held its first override vote in March, there have been a total of 19 veto overrides this year.
Published: Wednesday, February 7th, 2024 @ 2:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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House Republicans unveiled on Thursday their resolution to formalize the corruption-focused impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden.
Published: Monday, December 25th, 2023 @ 3:32 am
By: Daily Wire
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On Monday night, August 7, 2023, the Beaufort County Commissioners will consider a Resolution in Defense of Election Integrity.
Published: Saturday, August 12th, 2023 @ 7:11 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Senate Bill 749, “No Partisan Advantage in Elections,” passed along party lines in the North Carolina Senate and now moves on to the state House.
Published: Saturday, August 12th, 2023 @ 2:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2022 General Election has come and gone. And while the oft-prophesied national “red wave” failed to materialize, North Carolina Republicans had a successful election season.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 3:51 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In a 4-3 party-line vote, with Democrats in the majority, the N.C. Supreme Court is endorsing a court-ordered plan to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state treasury. The money would address the Leandro education funding lawsuit.
Published: Monday, December 5th, 2022 @ 9:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In Moore v. Harper, the Supreme Court can clarify what role state courts may take in the redistricting process
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 9:02 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research finds a flicker of good news amid the blizzard of bad news that has marked the Biden years so far. That good news is the recent Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency:
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 11:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Liberal progressives embrace conformity.
Published: Saturday, July 23rd, 2022 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Lacava
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The number of GOP-led states which assert they will not comply with the Biden administration proposal — which would force banks to hand over the aggregate transaction data for accounts with over $600 to the IRS — is starting to mushroom.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The original judge in North Carolina’s long-running Leandro school funding lawsuit disputes the notion that a judge can force other government actors to spend more money on education.
Published: Thursday, December 2nd, 2021 @ 5:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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This is a good man.
Published: Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 @ 9:46 pm
By: LifeZette
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The N.C. Supreme Court opened the door in 2018 to a potential seismic shift in state government power.
Published: Tuesday, January 12th, 2021 @ 11:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley manages to keep her job beyond the end of this year, one could say her electoral opponent and fellow Justice Paul Newby has fallen victim to “perilous consequences.”
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 5:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether N.C. election officials count absentee ballots received by mail between Nov. 7 and Nov. 12.
Published: Tuesday, October 27th, 2020 @ 3:14 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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Andrew McCarthy of National Review Online urges President Trump to take constitutional steps that restore order nationwide.
Published: Saturday, June 6th, 2020 @ 12:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As a big fan of redistricting reform, this observer appreciates hearing support for the cause from Wake County Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway.
Published: Friday, December 20th, 2019 @ 2:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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: Tuesday, July 16th, 2019 @ 11:49 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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On Thursday, the long-awaited Mueller report finally dropped, like manna from the heavens to the starved mass media.
Published: Saturday, April 20th, 2019 @ 10:32 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Sunday, radio host Rush Limbaugh made a rare appearance on television, this time on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
Published: Saturday, February 23rd, 2019 @ 11:38 pm
By: Daily Wire
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December 15 marks a very special day in our founding history - On that date in 1791, the first 14 states (Vermont had just been admitted to the Union as the 14th state), ratified the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution, known collectively as our Bill of Rights.
Published: Monday, January 21st, 2019 @ 3:53 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 caravan is here and some folks are saying that the migrants are already entering the country illegally. We'll soon find out when we hear the news (the honest news sources, that is).
Published: Tuesday, November 20th, 2018 @ 1:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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Last week I quoted glowing endorsements of Supreme Court nominee Judge Kavanaugh by seven legal experts from across the ideological spectrum
Published: Friday, September 7th, 2018 @ 4:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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