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On Monday, the state Senate Redistricting and Elections Committee passed S.B. 757, which could become the lines for North Carolina’s fourteen U.S. Congressional districts.
Published: Saturday, February 24th, 2024 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Liability shouldn't hinge upon whether a "reasonable person" would view something as a sexual assault, but whether a school administrator did, school lawyers argued.
Published: Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 @ 10:52 am
By: Daily Wire
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In 2021, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted to redraw their own district lines and lengthen their terms. They also voted themselves 132% pay increases, more than doubling their salaries.
Published: Thursday, March 2nd, 2023 @ 10:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The redistricting court in Common Cause v. Lewis issued several strict guidelines last month to the General Assembly on how to draft its new 2020 election maps. But will the court’s appointed referee have to follow the same rules?
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2019 @ 12:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly’s new election maps, as they are now, would largely even the playing field for 2020, experts say.
Published: Friday, September 20th, 2019 @ 8:25 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The continuing court fights over constitutional amendments, congressional districts, and other election issues have placed North Carolina in national headlines
Published: Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Courts have been dealing with gerrymandering - the redrawing of legislative district lines to further a particular political interest - for more than 50 years
Published: Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 @ 6:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, R-8th District, passionately urged his colleagues Wednesday to pass major Second Amendment legislation allowing concealed carry permit holders to transport weapons across state lines without fear of prosecution
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2017 @ 11:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One snake making headlines recently in North Carolina is the infamous 12th Congressional District, which winds its way from Greensboro to Charlotte, traveling a path that looks remarkably similar to Interstate 85
Published: Thursday, November 3rd, 2016 @ 5:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new unofficial congressional district map released Monday by a bipartisan panel of former state judges was not received warmly by the members of the General Assembly who have the legal authority to set election district lines.
Published: Thursday, September 1st, 2016 @ 1:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new unofficial congressional district map released Monday by a bipartisan panel of former state judges was not received warmly by the members of the General Assembly who have the legal authority to set election district lines.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As school districts across North Carolina received new restroom guidelines from the Obama administration based on a new interpretation of federal law
Published: Wednesday, May 18th, 2016 @ 12:39 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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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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Filing begins today at noon for candidates seeking nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives under new district lines still awaiting approval by a federal court in Winston Salem
Published: Saturday, March 19th, 2016 @ 6:46 pm
By: Christopher Maye
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California Attorney General Kamala Harris has attracted a lot of media attention, and not just because, as the President says, "She...happens to be, by far, the best looking attorney general in the country." When she was still District Attorney in San Francisco, Harris made headlines by...
Published: Thursday, September 10th, 2015 @ 2:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina students no longer would be required to take final exams under a bill passed by the House 116-2 on Tuesday, with supporters of House Bill 248 saying the tests vary from district-to-district, making it impossible to compare results across district lines.
Published: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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After the General Assembly earlier this year failed to enact legislation that would shift control of school building construction and ownership from the school district to the county commission, the Wake County Board of Commissioners voted 4-3 Monday along partisan lines to approve an interlocal agr
Published: Sunday, November 24th, 2013 @ 12:53 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Think back to 2006 with me. We had a conservative firebrand GOP legislator, representing a district near Charlotte, who was making headlines by criticizing the leadership of the state House (at the time, Democrat Jim Black and "Republican" Richard Morgan).
Published: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 @ 9:46 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Two men who call themselves conservatives are vying to represent House District 51, a district that spills roughly equally over the Lee and Harnett county lines.
Published: Wednesday, October 17th, 2012 @ 1:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The redistricting plan adopted last year by the General Assembly morphed the boundaries of the 13th U.S. Congressional District so much that its own congressman chose not to seek re-election.
Published: Sunday, October 14th, 2012 @ 9:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The candidates for the District 1 seat in the North Carolina Senate agree on two key transportation issues that have dominated coastal Carolina headlines, but that's where the common ground ends.
Published: Monday, October 1st, 2012 @ 4:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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According to Federal Courts and North Carolina General Statutes, the population of election districts must be reviewed following each federal census and lines must then be adjusted if the districts are out of balance.
Published: Monday, October 10th, 2011 @ 9:46 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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