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RALEIGH: Today, Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein filed an amicus brief in the partisan gerrymandering case currently before the North Carolina Supreme Court for a rehearing after the Court’s composition changed in January.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 12:01 pm
By: Governor's Office
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On Nov. 8, there will be 84 Supreme Court seats on the ballot in 30 states.
Published: Sunday, December 4th, 2022 @ 11:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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"I had a conversation with him just a couple of days ago, I support him," Cooper said on a CBS podcast. "He's been a fantastic president. I've told him that I will try to win North Carolina. If he makes the decision, I'm for him 100%."
Published: Sunday, November 20th, 2022 @ 2:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The latest filing in a case of now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts urges the state Supreme Court to focus on its recent precedent involving statewide election maps.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2022 @ 10:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. House and Senate gave final approval to redrawn or remedial legislative electoral maps Thursday, after last-minute adjustments delayed the Senate session several times.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 9:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Ten days after throwing out North Carolina’s newly drawn congressional and legislative election maps, the state Supreme Court has produced its formal opinion in the case.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As the Biden administration and Congress struggle with plummeting approval numbers, a battle is being waged in North Carolina and other states over who will control the drawing of congressional districts.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Hayden Ludwig writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a foreign source of funding for Democratic electoral shenanigans.
Published: Thursday, May 13th, 2021 @ 4:56 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has just been re-elected.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I remember when the inherent boredom of redistricting was a laugh line.
Published: Wednesday, September 11th, 2019 @ 12:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Democrats held the General Assembly after the 2000 elections, as they had for nearly all of the state’s history.
Published: Tuesday, July 9th, 2019 @ 10:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Much recent political commentary about North Carolina's Supreme Court focuses on the 5-2 majority that Democrats will gain in January
Published: Friday, December 28th, 2018 @ 10:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2018 election cycle may be considered a "blue moon" - but Democrats aren't just standing around without a dream in their hearts
Published: Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 @ 3:42 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling by a federal three-judge panel in the Covington v. North Carolina legislative redistricting lawsuit threatens to upset state election laws on a national scale through unprecedented court overreach, eight secretaries of state say in a legal filing
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2018 @ 3:59 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal court signaled Thursday that General Assembly Republicans' gambit to create race-neutral legislative districts may backfire
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2017 @ 6:56 pm
By: Governor's Office
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A three-judge panel overseeing the federal lawsuit challenging North Carolina's legislative election maps wants names of at least three people who could draw new sets of maps
Published: Tuesday, October 17th, 2017 @ 5:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Lawmakers won't consider race when they redraw legislative maps to meet a Sept. 1 federal court deadline
Published: Thursday, August 17th, 2017 @ 9:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The rights of people, rather than political considerations, must be the primary focus in fixing 28 unconstitutionally drawn state legislative districts
Published: Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 @ 11:34 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The term “efficiency gap” generates a buzz among those who want the federal courts to scrap partisan electoral gerrymandering
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017 @ 9:01 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys for legislative Republican leaders endured a barrage of questions and comments from a three-judge federal court panel over lawmakers' failure to remap 28 unconstitutionally drawn legislative districts
Published: Saturday, July 29th, 2017 @ 9:30 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Whether you are a North Carolina Democrat who dreams of recapturing your party's longtime control of the state legislature or a North Carolina Republican who dreams of recapturing your party's recent control of the governorship and state supreme court, I would urge you to calibrate your expectations
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2017 @ 3:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative lawyers told a three-judge federal panel handling a redistricting lawsuit a special General Assembly election this year would affect nearly two-thirds of the districts in the state, cost $20 million, and force lawmakers to violate several other constitutional provisions
Published: Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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"North Carolina has become ground zero in the redistricting battles about how much and how little race can be used in the redistricting process."
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The News & Observer of Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer have offered up a wonderful example of the power of free and independent thought
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2017 @ 6:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper ordered the General Assembly to convene Thursday in a concurrent special session to redraw state electoral maps
Published: Wednesday, June 7th, 2017 @ 5:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys close to legislative Republicans told Carolina Journal special legislative elections in 2017 "are almost certainly off the table."
Published: Wednesday, January 25th, 2017 @ 9:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys representing liberal and civil-rights organizations in the Covington Voting Rights Act case cite a controversial study claiming North Carolina is no longer a fully functioning democracy as part of their filing with Chief Justice of the U.S. John Roberts to deny the state’s request
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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One of the main issues in the race for House District 41 is health insurance - specifically whether and how the state should deal with Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act.
Published: Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 @ 12:44 am
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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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death, and the resulting 4-4 philosophical divide among the remaining justices, likely swung Chief Justice John Roberts' decision not to issue a stay in North Carolina's congressional redistricting case, say several political science professors
Published: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2016 @ 2:40 am
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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Kudos to Senate leader Phil Berger for his incisive answer as to whether he would support an independent redistricting commission. According to Gary Robertson of the Associated Press, Berger said...
Published: Monday, February 9th, 2015 @ 11:09 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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