Two new lawsuits challenge the underlying state law that permitted red-light camera enforcement programs.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 8:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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A new filing from N.C. legislative leaders asks the state Supreme Court to steer clear of a case involving voting rights for felons. A courtroom victory for the felons could add 56,000 people to the state’s voting rolls.
Published: Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 @ 1:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has issued a temporary stay in a case dealing with felon voting in North Carolina. The stay blocks any felons from registering to vote until appeals in the case are resolved.
Published: Saturday, April 9th, 2022 @ 12:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals delivered a blow Tuesday to a lawsuit against a 2018 state law allowing some towns to sponsor charter schools. The Appeals Court vacated a trial judge’s order that would have allowed the lawsuit to move forward.
Published: Thursday, April 7th, 2022 @ 10:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Winners of a recent trial court ruling on voting rights for felons want the N.C. Supreme Court to take up the case. The ruling could affect 56,000 felons who have completed active prison time.
Published: Wednesday, April 6th, 2022 @ 7:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders want the N.C. Court of Appeals to block a ruling that could add 56,000 felons to the state’s voting rolls.
Published: Friday, April 1st, 2022 @ 11:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s 2018 voter ID law complies with the state constitution and should survive a legal challenge.
Published: Wednesday, March 30th, 2022 @ 9:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge Superior Court panel has ruled, 2-1, that felons who have completed their prison sentences in North Carolina must be permitted to vote.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 11:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fight over $1.7 billion in court-ordered N.C. education spending is heading to a new judge. Court records confirm that the long-running legal case known as Leandro is heading to Special Superior Court Judge Michael Robinson.
Published: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022 @ 8:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to jump back into the state’s long-running school funding legal dispute. The court wants a trial judge to assess the impact of the new state budget on a $1.7 billion order for additional state education spending.
Published: Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 @ 1:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court has agreed to take up a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law. The high court’s decision removes the case from the state Court of Appeals and places it on a faster track for final resolution.
Published: Monday, March 7th, 2022 @ 12:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders argue there’s no good reason for the N.C. Supreme Court to step into a dispute now over $1.7 billion in court-ordered education funding.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 8:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly did not convene this week, but there was still activity in Raleigh.
Published: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 @ 8:22 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The N.C. Supreme Court is refusing to insert itself back into the state’s legal dispute over legislative and congressional redistricting at this time.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 12:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State lawmakers defending their latest election maps are urging a three-judge panel to avoid conducting a “beauty contest” over competing plans.
Published: Wednesday, February 23rd, 2022 @ 11:01 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The fate of two approved amendments to North Carolina’s Constitution now sits in the hands of the state Supreme Court. The court spent an hour Monday morning questioning lawyers who argued for and against the amendments.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 11:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Earls’ campaign statements go right up to the edge of requiring recusal
Published: Wednesday, February 16th, 2022 @ 1:49 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Legislative defendants and the N.C. Department of Justice are defending North Carolina’s voter ID law before the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s legislative and congressional election maps now sit in the hands of the N.C. Supreme Court, after 90 minutes of oral arguments for and against the maps Wednesday morning.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 9:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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All seven N.C. Supreme Court justices will take part in Wednesday’s oral arguments in a high-profile challenge of the state’s new election maps.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law are fighting a request to remove a Republican state Supreme Court justice from hearing the case.
Published: Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in a case challenging North Carolina’s voter ID law are rejecting a proposal to move the case to the state Supreme Court.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 6:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The most recent N.C. Supreme Court order in a case involving challenged election maps takes up 3 1/2 pages.
Published: Saturday, January 29th, 2022 @ 10:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s redistricting lawsuits are opposing efforts to have Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. disqualified from the case.
Published: Thursday, January 27th, 2022 @ 6:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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One group challenging North Carolina’s new election maps in court is distancing itself from debates about recusal of targeted N.C. Supreme Court justices.
Published: Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Judges in redistricting trial refused to sanction defendants over maps drawn by Rep. Destin Hall and staffers during "strategy sessions."
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 5:33 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Critics of North Carolina’s latest voter ID law want the N.C. Supreme Court to consider their lawsuit.
Published: Thursday, January 20th, 2022 @ 12:37 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As critics of North Carolina’s new election maps take their case to the state Supreme Court, lawyers on both sides of the case are taking aim at justices they want to drop out of the case.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 9:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A unanimous three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 @ 12:53 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s legal fight over new election maps are seeking Supreme Court Justice Sam “Jimmy” Ervin IV’s recusal from the case.
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 9:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Two leaders of North Carolina’s legislative redistricting committees defended their election map-drawing process during the third day of a trial focusing on the future of those maps.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 6:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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