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A three-judge panel has rejected Gov. Roy Cooper's proposed injunction against recent action from the state Environmental Management Commission.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 1:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has filed another lawsuit in state court against North Carolina's top legislative leaders. This one targets a new creating an eight-member state elections board with an even split between Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Superior Court judges from Granville, Johnston, and Richmond counties will oversee Gov. Roy Cooper's lawsuit challenging a law that takes away some of his appointment powers.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 12:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, says the governor’s long-running COVID state of emergency is now the “status quo.”
Published: Monday, April 4th, 2022 @ 7:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Cooper, House Speaker Tim Moore, Rep. Robert Reives, Senate President Pro Tempore Phil Berger and Senator Dan Blue issued the following statement
Published: Monday, May 24th, 2021 @ 11:09 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper appointed left wing political hack Darren Jackson to fill conservative jurist Phil Berger’s seat on the North Carolina Court of Appeals following his election to the Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, January 1st, 2021 @ 11:17 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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More than one N.C. political battle in recent years has generated a court case titled Cooper v. Berger.
Published: Wednesday, November 11th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With the November election over, lawmakers must reconfigure the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement to comply with a Superior Court order
Published: Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 @ 2:27 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A special legislative investigative panel wants to know if Gov. Roy Cooper was in line to benefit personally from solar energy companies by creating a $57.8 million "slush fund" paid for by Atlantic Coast Pipeline developers.
Published: Thursday, November 15th, 2018 @ 9:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper says the urgency of dealing with Hurricane Florence recovery led him to sign executive orders re-establishing six state agencies tied up in litigation with the General Assembly
Published: Tuesday, October 9th, 2018 @ 11:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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It would be easy to dismiss the recurring political battles between Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the Republican-led General Assembly as pure partisan posturing
Published: Thursday, July 26th, 2018 @ 12:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Senate delivered swiftly on a leadership pledge to kill Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of the 2018-19 General Fund budget, voting 34-13 to override Thursday, June 7
Published: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 @ 6:54 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court will have another chance to join the political tug of war pitting Gov. Roy Cooper against state legislative leaders. How the high court responds to that opportunity will offer more clues about its willingness to play partisan politics
Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The last batch of N.C. Supreme Court opinions for 2017 confirms what court watchers have witnessed during the rest of the year: A change in the court's partisan "control" has not translated into a clear split of justices along party lines
Published: Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Ever since the 2016 election, many N.C. Republicans have feared - and many Democrats have hoped - that a partisan realignment on the N.C. Supreme Court could put the brakes on policies and programs put forward by the GOP-led General Assembly
Published: Friday, September 8th, 2017 @ 10:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Suggesting Gov. Roy Cooper belongs to a group of "opportunistic politicians trying to drive a wedge further between us," on Thursday Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, offered his first detailed response to the week's protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and Durham
Published: Friday, August 18th, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper gave General Assembly Republicans a Memorial Day weekend present: yet another legal challenge to legislation the governor claims unconstitutionally limits his executive powers
Published: Tuesday, May 30th, 2017 @ 3:10 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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