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North Carolina’s Republican legislative leadership never met a tax they didn’t want to cut. Since taking control of state government in 2011, they have cut corporate tax rates from 6.9 percent to the current 2.0 percent.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2025 @ 6:07 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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North Carolina's legislative leaders and the state Department of Health and Human Services split over a proposed preliminary injunction of a new law dealing with gender transition surgeries for minors.
Published: Tuesday, March 19th, 2024 @ 9:11 pm
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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birds of a feather flock together, Liberal legislative leaders Berger and Moore alos back Truiti
Published: Sunday, February 11th, 2024 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Steed
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A three-judge Superior Court panel appointed by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Newby will consider Gov. Roy Cooper's latest lawsuit against state legislative leaders.
Published: Friday, February 9th, 2024 @ 11:21 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Leandro plaintiffs are asking the state Supreme Court to reject a petition from state legislative leaders. Top lawmakers want the high court to take another look at the long-running education funding lawsuit.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 7:55 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The state retirement system and top legislative leaders are asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to dismiss the Wilson County school board's appeal in a pension-spiking dispute.
Published: Friday, January 26th, 2024 @ 11:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill Thursday that restructures the North Carolina State Board of Elections by splitting the appointments between the majority and minority legislative leaders.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina General Assembly sent Gov. Roy Cooper a bill on Friday that restructures the North Carolina State Board of Elections by splitting the appointments between the majority and minority legislative leaders.
Published: Wednesday, January 10th, 2024 @ 12:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers for state legislative leaders have signaled they intend to seek another state Supreme Court review of the Leandro education funding case.
Published: Tuesday, December 26th, 2023 @ 9:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A number of Raleigh politicos expected legislative leadership to announce a budget agreement this week. On Tuesday, however, tales of a budget agreement came and went.
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 10:10 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders warned a federal judge this week that opponents of the state's new abortion law are trying to "circumvent" a US Supreme Court decision.
Published: Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 @ 4:40 pm
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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State legislative leaders cite the "major questions doctrine" in their latest defense of state abortion pill restrictions against a federal lawsuit.
Published: Monday, November 20th, 2023 @ 5:54 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, Governor Cooper filed a lawsuit against Republican legislative leaders in Wake County Superior Court, challenging provisions in Senate Bill 512 that clearly violate the separation of powers established in the North Carolina Constitution.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 2:05 pm
By: Governor's Office
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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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Top state legislative leaders have filed a new motion to dismiss a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's abortion pill restrictions.
Published: Monday, November 13th, 2023 @ 8:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders oppose Planned Parenthood's request for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit challenging portions of North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Monday, November 6th, 2023 @ 7:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles has issued an order confirming that Republican legislative leaders can continue defending North Carolina's new abortion law in federal court.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 2:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders have signed onto a "joint stipulation" that addresses two points of contention in a federal lawsuit attacking North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Monday, September 18th, 2023 @ 2:45 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican state legislative leaders and Democratic N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein take contrasting approaches to a proposed temporary restraining order against North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 7:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles will allow top Republican legislative leaders to take part in Wednesday's hearing in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. General Assembly's top leaders seek to intervene in a federal lawsuit challenging the state's new abortion law.
Published: Sunday, August 27th, 2023 @ 3:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Republican legislative leaders defy the grassroots
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 10:26 pm
By: John Steed
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Legislative leaders filed a new legal brief Friday responding to criticism of their motion to dismiss a federal lawsuit against state abortion pill restrictions.
Published: Saturday, July 15th, 2023 @ 7:57 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top N.C. legislative leaders are appealing the latest ruling in the long-running Leandro education funding case to the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Published: Saturday, June 10th, 2023 @ 7:02 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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RINO Texas speaker of the House gets major conservative primary challenger
Published: Thursday, June 8th, 2023 @ 4:55 pm
By: John Steed
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North Carolina legislative leaders say they anticipate a quick vote to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 20
Published: Monday, May 15th, 2023 @ 12:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, Republican legislative leaders filed a bill that would ensure North Carolinians are not coerced into joining labor unions.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit targeting state laws against abortion pills.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 9:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Justice Department and lawyers representing Republican legislative leaders take opposite stances in new Moore v. Harper briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders call for new Leandro Judge James Ammons to slice the state's education spending obligation from $677 million to $377 million.
Published: Sunday, April 9th, 2023 @ 8:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A federal judge has granted N.C. legislative leaders' request to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion pill restrictions.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, both Democrats, filed a motion Friday opposing Republican legislative leaders in a redistricting case at the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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In a press conference Thursday, Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore announced that an agreement has been reached between the chambers to expand the federal Medicaid entitlement program in North Carolina.
Published: Monday, March 20th, 2023 @ 2:15 am
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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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein does not oppose state legislative leaders intervening in a lawsuit challenging state restrictions on abortion pills.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The UNC Health doctor challenging North Carolina's laws regarding abortion pills does not oppose legislative leaders' involvement in her lawsuit.
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 7:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After a decade of fighting it, Republicans agree on the largest entitlement expansion in state history
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 11:38 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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