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"We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries worth of precedent..."
Published: Monday, July 7th, 2025 @ 7:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The federal judiciary is the real constitutional crisis.
Published: Friday, July 4th, 2025 @ 6:06 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Biden judge says his order remains in effect even after overturned by SCOTUS
Published: Tuesday, June 24th, 2025 @ 7:29 am
By: John Steed
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If we look back on our grade school education, we remember being taught the very fundamentals of what went on at the Constitutional Convention.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:40 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Happy Anniversary America !! This year, 2011, celebrates 218 years since the British signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783, formally abandoning any claims to the United States.
Published: Thursday, July 4th, 2024 @ 7:35 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Keep an eye on this potential shift in "The Law"
Published: Sunday, May 26th, 2024 @ 9:49 pm
By: Beaufort Observer Editorial Team
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A slew of top Republicans slammed the Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday after it ruled to remove Trump from the state’s 2024 presidential ballot, arguing that he engaged in an insurrection with his actions on January 6, 2021.
Published: Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 @ 1:03 am
By: Daily Wire
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In a trio of rulings Friday, the N.C. Supreme Court restored the state's voter ID law, took state courts out of partisan gerrymandering disputes, and ended voting for felons who have not completed their sentences.
Published: Saturday, June 3rd, 2023 @ 5:28 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Longtime college basketball commentator Billy Packer died Thursday night at age 82. While most people remember Packer for his role in the sports world, Carolina Journal readers might remember his battle with state environmental regulators, documented by executive editor Don Carrington in May 2011.
Published: Saturday, February 11th, 2023 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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When I talk to folks about the Constitution, I usually comment that “the Constitution holds all the answers to the problems that are plaguing us as a country,” and as a republic.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Make no mistake, abortion on-demand is not a right guaranteed by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court’s result (referring to Roe v. Wade) has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 12:55 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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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 term “Gerrymandering” refers to the act of manipulating the boundaries of voting districts to achieve some political advantage.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 1:22 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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If lawmaking power is supposed to be forever separate from the powers of the executive branch, then how is it that state agencies can create what amount to laws?
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 4:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It's much easier for unelected bureaucrats to make rules than for elected legislators to pass laws, and that's a problem
Published: Saturday, March 5th, 2022 @ 3:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected state congressional and legislative election maps with a party-line 4-3 vote. The court’s four Democratic justices agreed to strike down maps drawn by a Republican-led legislature.
Published: Monday, February 7th, 2022 @ 6:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State Controller Linda Combs is going to court to block a recent ruling in the long-running Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Saturday, April 24th, 2021 @ 9:01 am
By: Diane Rufino
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The Supreme Court shut the door on the 2020 election late last month, but Justice Clarence Thomas got the last word.
Published: Saturday, March 13th, 2021 @ 9:07 am
By: Judicial Watch
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This article is dedicated to our great Founding Fathers - men who had the courage, the foresight, and the wisdom to secure the freedom that I exercise and enjoy every single day. - Diane Rufino
Published: Monday, February 22nd, 2021 @ 9:06 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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If N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley manages to keep her job beyond the end of this year, one could say her electoral opponent and fellow Justice Paul Newby has fallen victim to “perilous consequences.”
Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 @ 5:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court began hearing oral arguments on a challenge to the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) in the case California v. Texas.
Published: Thursday, November 12th, 2020 @ 12:05 am
By: Daily Wire
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In the final story of North Carolina’s 2020 election, U.S. District Judge James Dever’s name might end up securing only a footnote.
Published: Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 @ 3:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Last year, a Superior Court panel in North Carolina declared the state’s congressional districts an unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.
Published: Tuesday, September 29th, 2020 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Chief Justice Roberts and four liberal Supreme Court Justices ruled against the Trump administration’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) amnesty program.
Published: Monday, June 22nd, 2020 @ 9:49 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Touchscreen voting systems suffer from numerous defects and the State Board of Elections (SBE) should not have approved of their use in North Carolina Elections.
Published: Monday, April 27th, 2020 @ 3:31 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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This article comes from a few remarks I made to introduce my last TEA Party meeting.
Published: Wednesday, February 26th, 2020 @ 9:42 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Rep. Craig Horn, R-Union, said he wouldn’t be surprised if a judge orders the state to spend more on education.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2019 @ 7:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Remarks by President Trump on Federal Judicial Confirmation Milestones
Published: Monday, November 11th, 2019 @ 8:01 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in North Carolina’s high-profile partisan gerrymandering case offered an excellent lesson about the limits of judicial power. It’s a lesson that should come in handy soon for state judges.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019 @ 4:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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