The North Carolina Supreme court is scheduled to rehear two high-stakes election lawsuits on redistricting and voter ID.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 11:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Appeals Court Chief Judge Donna Stroud began her new term by emphasizing bringing people together after COVID shutdowns and the recent judicial elections.
Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 @ 11:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal recently surveyed the four candidates running for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, October 13th, 2022 @ 11:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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In November’s midterm elections, the stakes are high in the two races for the North Carolina Supreme Court. The high court currently has a 4-3 Democrat majority, so if Republicans flip just one seat, the balance shifts on the court.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 10:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday morning, day two gets underway of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 4:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) slammed President Joe Biden and Democrats on Sunday for trying to deflect blame over rising gas prices and skyrocketing inflation.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 11:17 pm
By: Daily Wire
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This week, Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will be questioned before the Senate. Concerning questions have been raised about her record and her judicial philosophy.
Published: Monday, March 21st, 2022 @ 6:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Joe Biden said at the White House on Tuesday that the debate over who would be his nominee to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer would be centered around what he claimed was an ever “evolving” U.S. Constitution.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 3:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Election season this year has been like no other.
Published: Saturday, December 5th, 2020 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Stephanie Taub explains at the Daily Signal how Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s judicial philosophy helps preserve the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Sunday, October 25th, 2020 @ 3:23 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The debate over Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court has revived interest in important constitutional questions: How much deference should a justice give to court precedent?
Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 8:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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As Carolina Journal has reported, the outcome of the election for three justices on the N.C. Supreme Court may determine whether state government returns to the structure it’s largely followed over the past half-century.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2020 @ 8:39 pm
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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John McCormack of National Review Online examines a key line from Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s first speech as a Supreme Court nominee.
Published: Thursday, October 8th, 2020 @ 3:33 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Noah Feldman explains at Bloomberg.com why he believes Judge Amy Coney Barrett deserves confirmation as a Supreme Court justice.
Published: Saturday, October 3rd, 2020 @ 12:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 2016 presidential campaign turned me into a judiciary junkie.
Published: Friday, September 25th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Follow the money, the saying goes.
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2020 @ 5:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Voters in this state will help decide this year whether Donald Trump wins a second term as president.
Published: Monday, February 10th, 2020 @ 12:06 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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If they played football, they’d wear long, black jerseys, and their end zone would be a judicial bench.
Published: Friday, December 6th, 2019 @ 11:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Conservative Appellate Judicial Candidates filed for the NC Supreme Court and the NC Court of Appeals on the opening day of filing, Monday, December 2.
Published: Wednesday, December 4th, 2019 @ 9:04 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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We tend to think of U.S. Supreme Court justices as ideological, their views and actions mapping neatly onto the conventional liberal-to-conservative continuum of American politics.
Published: Saturday, August 17th, 2019 @ 9:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In choosing a new Justice, I will select someone with impeccable credentials, great intellect, unbiased judgement, and deep reverence for the laws and Constitution of the United States.
Published: Tuesday, July 10th, 2018 @ 11:33 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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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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A top election law adviser to legislative leaders suggests the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts could have a decision fairly quickly on whether to delay an order by an appeals court striking down North Carolina's voter ID law
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2016 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If we all have the same rights as human beings, is it really free or is there a price that must be paid by someone?
Published: Saturday, March 26th, 2016 @ 3:37 am
By: Bobby Tony
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Currently, state law mandates that school board elections be non-partisan contests, but there are exceptions to the rule. According to a guide (PDF) published by the N.C. State Board of Elections, 17 of the state's 115 school boards elect and/or appoint members by political party. They include...
Published: Wednesday, July 1st, 2015 @ 12:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Right-leaning lawyers and legal analysts agree that the courts are a vital venue for preserving constitutional rights. But they note a surprising trend of conservative support for using judicial activism to achieve that aim rather than the traditional conservative deference to state and federal...
Published: Thursday, April 16th, 2015 @ 7:45 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday ruled 2-1 that the federal government cannot tax employers in order to provide health insurance subsidies in North Carolina and 35 other states that refused to establish Obamacare exchanges, potentially threatening the national health reform.
Published: Friday, July 25th, 2014 @ 8:04 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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To many, the race is below the radar, taking a back seat to the presidential and gubernatorial contests in North Carolina. But some say the battle for a state Supreme Court justice seat could be the most important race to be decided by the state's voters this year.
Published: Saturday, October 6th, 2012 @ 11:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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