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What defines an activist court? Is it one that establishes new rules by expanding and stretching the constitution to write a perceived wrong, or is it a court that looks to readdress prior rulings and potentially establish precedents more grounded in the constitution?
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 10:39 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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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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State legislative leaders argue a trial court's $785 million Leandro spending order exceeds judicial authority over public education.
Published: Tuesday, July 12th, 2022 @ 3:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A ruling overturning constitutional amendments would invalidate statewide votes of the people
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:16 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Supreme Court decision that redistricting maps be redrawn to more accurately reflect the makeup of our state has five takeaways.
Published: Friday, February 11th, 2022 @ 5:22 am
By: Tom Campbell
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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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Former State Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley, a Democrat currently running for U.S. Senate, came under fire this month in the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Friday, November 5th, 2021 @ 11:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Newby’s election completed a Republican sweep of eight statewide judicial seats, including three at the Supreme Court and five on the Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, December 16th, 2020 @ 3:41 pm
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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On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could conceivably rid the nation of ObamaCare.
Published: Saturday, March 7th, 2020 @ 12:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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When conservatives argue for judicial restraint, most don’t mean that the judicial branch ought to be supine and subservient to lawmakers and executives.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 9:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina voters have tried for a long time now to enact a common-sense voter identification law.
Published: Thursday, March 7th, 2019 @ 10:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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In the long-running dispute between State School Superintendent Mark Johnson, a Republican elected in 2016, and the State Board of Education, which currently has a majority of Republican appointees, the North Carolina Supreme Court has sided 6-0 with Johnson
Published: Tuesday, June 26th, 2018 @ 9:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina Republicans have officially made endorsements in the 2018 statewide judicial races
Published: Saturday, June 16th, 2018 @ 1:13 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today the US Supreme Court issued a brutal takedown of the ruling of the three judge pannel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate the terms of duly elected members of the North Carolina General Assembly and hold special elections this year
Published: Monday, June 5th, 2017 @ 5:16 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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During a March 27 talk at North Carolina State University, Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett told the assembled faculty, students, and other members of the audience that many of his allies on the political Right were wrong
Published: Monday, April 17th, 2017 @ 9:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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This article will explain why the Executive Order and the temporary travel ban is legal and appropriate and why I think it will ultimately be upheld.
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 @ 2:27 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Reporting about U.S. Supreme Court debates often revolves around disagreements between liberal and conservative voting blocs
Published: Saturday, August 15th, 2015 @ 5:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If you're like me, you're probably a bit disheartened by our Lt. Governor. Dan Forest talked a good game on the 2012 campaign trail.
Published: Thursday, July 2nd, 2015 @ 10:04 am
By: Brant Clifton
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"What's the conservative position on this issue?" "Why do conservatives think x about y?" "All conservatives agree about this, don't they?"
Published: Thursday, May 14th, 2015 @ 11:23 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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Debates about U.S. Supreme Court politics often involve competing blocs of conservative and liberal justices. But that focus on left versus right misses an important constitutional debate among right-of-center thinkers.
Published: Sunday, April 5th, 2015 @ 10:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A ruling Thursday by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals on gay marriage restrictions in Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky could open the door to a US Supreme Court review and offer some hope for advocates of traditional marriage.
Published: Thursday, November 13th, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld as constitutional the Marriage Amendments in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The Sixth Circuit's ruling almost ensures that the United States Supreme Court will hear the issue.
Published: Friday, November 7th, 2014 @ 6:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to uphold the U.S. Constitution's limits on the federal government's powers.
Published: Sunday, July 13th, 2014 @ 11:09 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Years ago, and indeed, the whole of history, will show that marriage has always been intended to bind a man and woman together in a special union for the purpose of procreating and raising children.
Published: Monday, April 30th, 2012 @ 9:14 am
By: Diane Rufino
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