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Kidwell was a leader in blocking Phil Berger's casnio bill
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2026 @ 4:06 pm
By: John Steed
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses North Carolina’s new congressional and legislative election maps.
Published: Friday, March 1st, 2024 @ 4:16 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper has filed another lawsuit in state court against North Carolina's top legislative leaders. This one targets a new creating an eight-member state elections board with an even split between Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Friday, February 16th, 2024 @ 8:42 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Top legislative leaders filed paperwork Monday to intervene in three federal lawsuits challenging North Carolina election law.
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 11:57 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Voter identification opponents defend their request to reopen discovery in a federal lawsuit. Republican legislative leaders and the State Board of Elections oppose new discovery.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 8:13 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Top North Carolina legislative leaders object to voter identification critics conducting new discovery in a federal lawsuit. The State Board of Elections also objects to additional discovery.
Published: Wednesday, November 15th, 2023 @ 11:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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after another VA Dem made porn to finance her campaign
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:30 pm
By: John Steed
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RALEIGH: As legislative Republicans in North Carolina continue their all-out assault on the right to vote, Governor Roy Cooper wrote an opinion piece for CNN condemning these dangerous bills and urging people to make their voices heard.
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2023 @ 6:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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Our legislature continues to dance to the tunes played by ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Published: Tuesday, September 26th, 2023 @ 10:16 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Elections boards and primary elections now contoolled by legislative leaders
Published: Sunday, August 20th, 2023 @ 2:07 pm
By: John Steed
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On the same day that Gov. Roy Cooper complained about a legislative "power grab" involving changes to the N.C. State Board of Elections, his lawyers filed paperwork in a lawsuit challenging the current board.
Published: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023 @ 3:19 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders have asked a federal court to dismiss unaffiliated voters' lawsuit challenging the partisan composition of the State Board of Elections.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 12:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As reported at The Carolina Journal, North Carolina’s legislative leaders filed petitions last week asking the N.C. Supreme Court to rehear two cases in which the court’s outgoing Democratic majority ruled against Republican legislators on election maps and voter ID.
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 1:20 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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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 have filed a final brief asking a federal judge to dismiss the Common Cause v. Moore lawsuit. It aims to give unaffiliated voters access to seats on the State Board of Elections.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Board of Elections has launched a formal investigation into “Neighbors on Call,” a local PAC working with Democratic candidates in key legislative elections.
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022 @ 10:13 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. legislative leaders' redistricting arguments would "wreak havoc" on American elections, according to a new brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by left-of-center critics.
Published: Friday, November 11th, 2022 @ 1:54 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Top legislative leaders urge U.S. District Judge William Osteen to dismiss a lawsuit from unaffiliated voters. It challenges a state law limiting membership on the State Board of Elections to Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders argue that state courts' decision to throw out a congressional election map is "irreconcilable" with the U.S. Constitution.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 6:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top N.C. legislative leaders have filed arguments against a court-imposed congressional map, even though they want to drop their appeal against the map.
Published: Thursday, August 4th, 2022 @ 1:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to dismiss an appeal against a court-ordered congressional map. The map is valid only for 2022 elections.
Published: Sunday, July 17th, 2022 @ 2:11 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Foes of N.C. legislative election maps want the state Supreme Court to speed up its consideration of their legal challenge.
Published: Thursday, July 7th, 2022 @ 5:34 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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ERIC was created with money from Soros' Open Society Institute
Published: Saturday, July 2nd, 2022 @ 5:09 pm
By: John Steed
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The John Locke Foundation releases an updated Civitas Partisan Index on court-ordered legislative maps
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 9:18 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State legislative leaders are giving U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts more reasons to back their request for emergency Supreme Court action on North Carolina’s disputed congressional map.
Published: Thursday, March 10th, 2022 @ 8:27 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step into the legal dispute over a new congressional map for North Carolina.
Published: Tuesday, March 1st, 2022 @ 3:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A bipartisan unanimous three-judge panel has upheld newly drawn maps for North Carolina’s legislative elections. But the same panel has rejected a revised map for congressional elections.
Published: Friday, February 25th, 2022 @ 11:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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WRAL reported yesterday about the kurfuffle over Cheif Justice Paul Newby pointing out that there is not a “fair elections” clause in the North Carolina Constitution.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 1:50 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. House and Senate gave final approval to redrawn or remedial legislative electoral maps Thursday, after last-minute adjustments delayed the Senate session several times.
Published: Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 @ 9:04 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of the General Assembly returned to Raleigh this week. Redistricting maps were the primary focus of the week to meet the NC Supreme Court deadline of Friday at 5:00 p.m.
Published: Monday, February 21st, 2022 @ 8:26 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Ten days after throwing out North Carolina’s newly drawn congressional and legislative election maps, the state Supreme Court has produced its formal opinion in the case.
Published: Thursday, February 17th, 2022 @ 1:47 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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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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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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Legislative defendants are asking the N.C. Supreme Court to avoid jumping into a legal fight over new election maps.
Published: Monday, December 20th, 2021 @ 9:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The full N.C. Court of Appeals has overturned a three-judge panel’s order blocking congressional and legislative candidate filing. Filing can proceed until the full 15-member court considers challenges to new state election maps.
Published: Saturday, December 18th, 2021 @ 12:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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New legislative election maps would give Republicans an advantage in the 2022 elections.
Published: Monday, December 6th, 2021 @ 12:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While all eyes were on Virginia and New Jersey elections on Tuesday, N.C. Republicans quietly followed the same pattern, flipping key elections in areas critical to legislative and congressional elections next year.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 3:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When drawing congressional and legislative district maps, can we be assured of fair and impartial elections just because lawmakers didn’t use racial or partisan factors in drawing districts?
Published: Wednesday, November 10th, 2021 @ 8:30 am
By: Tom Campbell
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