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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In the Pantheon of notable North Carolina public servants none stands so tall as Jim Broyhill. The Broyhill family story is essentially the North Carolina story. Starting from humble beginnings, family members learned to work hard, persevere, be humble and serve others.
Published: Friday, February 24th, 2023 @ 8:35 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Activist group Common Cause labels as "frivolous" the request from N.C. legislative leaders for a state Supreme Court rehearing in a hotly contested redistricting case.
Published: Sunday, February 12th, 2023 @ 1:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to rehear cases dealing with state election maps and voter ID.
Published: Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 @ 8:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders hope the state Supreme Court will hold a new hearing in the Harper v. Hall redistricting case.
Published: Monday, February 6th, 2023 @ 1:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Majority Ruling Could Lead New State Senate and House Maps
Published: Saturday, January 7th, 2023 @ 2:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court spent nearly three hours dissecting arguments in North Carolina's Moore v. Harper congressional redistricting case.
Published: Thursday, January 5th, 2023 @ 7:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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WRAL recently came out with an editorial on Moore v. Harper, a United States Supreme Court case on who gets to draw North Carolina’s congressional districts.
Published: Saturday, December 24th, 2022 @ 4:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State legislative leaders submitted their final written arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the Moore v. Harper redistricting case.
Published: Sunday, December 18th, 2022 @ 3:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) appeared to claim in a Wednesday interview that he had risked — and ultimately gave up — his political career because he stood up and fought against former President Donald Trump.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 12:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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Groups opposing N.C. lawmakers' arguments in the Moore v. Harper redistricting case have filed at least 40 amicus briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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When the last vote is cast and the last ballot counted how will things be different? Will we at last enter a time of peace when tempers abate and words of kindness fill our mouths?
Published: Saturday, November 12th, 2022 @ 6:26 pm
By: Lib Campbell
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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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How a case of alleged racially motivated gerrymandering could impact future U.S. elections
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sometimes simple explanations aren’t enough. That’s certainly the case with a North Carolina lawsuit the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider.
Published: Friday, October 7th, 2022 @ 7:15 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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N.C. lawmakers accuse redistricting plaintiffs of trying to "disestablish" the General Assembly's authority to draw state election maps.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 3:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a constitutional amendment implementing voter ID requirements may be invalid because the legislature that passed it was racially gerrymandered.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina Supreme Court has opened Pandora’s box with their 4-3 decision on Voter ID. In Greek mythology Pandora’s curiosity led her to open a container entrusted to her husband, unleashing what we today call “a can of worms.”
Published: Thursday, August 25th, 2022 @ 8:46 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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With a 4-3 party-line vote, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed that two voter-approved state constitutional amendments could be thrown out. They have sent the case back to a trial judge to make that decision.
Published: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2022 @ 1:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The first step in solving a problem is recognizing you have one. Republicans have belatedly identified a big one of theirs, which goes by the name Eric Holder. Let the state supreme court campaigns begin.
Published: Friday, August 19th, 2022 @ 4:35 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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To paraphrase Alice, who used the term to describe her adventures in Wonderland, election politics in America is getting “curiouser and curiouser.” North Carolina has been in the forefront of innovation and implementation
Published: Thursday, August 11th, 2022 @ 11:59 am
By: Tom Campbell
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In a party-line 4-3 split, Democrats on the N.C. Supreme Court agreed to hear a redistricting dispute as early as Oct. 3.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 11:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders defend their authority over redistricting in a new brief to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Monday, August 1st, 2022 @ 7:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We are still dealing with the fallout from the redistricting case that resulted in a panel of court-appointed special masters drawing North Carolina’s congressional districts last February.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 7:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina will be in the news once again next October as the US Supreme Court hears the case Moore vs. Harper, a case that could alter not only our state, but our democracy. We need to pay attention to this one.
Published: Friday, July 15th, 2022 @ 8:54 am
By: Lib Campbell
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The three masters charged N.C. taxpayers $690 an hour for their work on maps.
Published: Monday, July 4th, 2022 @ 8:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Supreme Court's gerrymandering may be set aside
Published: Thursday, June 30th, 2022 @ 4:08 pm
By: John Steed
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Obama judge was to draw own racially gerrymandered districts tomorrow
Published: Tuesday, June 28th, 2022 @ 5:48 pm
By: John Steed
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Republican legislative leaders and their redistricting critics could battle over court-ordered fees for the work of special masters.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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American voters are increasingly disenchanted with the men and women who have been elected to govern their interests both domestically and abroad.
Published: Thursday, May 26th, 2022 @ 5:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sam Wang's Statistical Analysis Led to a Court's Rejection of the General Assembly's Remedial Congressional Map
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 7:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Sam Wang of the Princeton Gerrymandering Project is accused of "manipulating data to match his personal agenda.
Published: Thursday, May 5th, 2022 @ 8:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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