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The N.C. Supreme Court will look much different in 2023. Voters decided in November to oust one incumbent Democrat from the state’s highest court.
Published: Wednesday, May 10th, 2023 @ 6:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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State legislative leaders have filed new legal briefs supporting reversals of the N.C. Supreme Court's December decisions in voter ID and redistricting cases.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:51 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Both the Republican leaders of the N.C. General Assembly and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein's office have filed briefs with the N.C. Supreme Court defending the state's voter ID law.
Published: Wednesday, March 8th, 2023 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will rehear the Harper v. Hall redistricting case on March 14. It will rehear the Holmes v. Moore voter ID case March 15.
Published: Saturday, February 25th, 2023 @ 4:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will rehear cases dealing with voter ID and statewide election maps in March.
Published: Saturday, February 18th, 2023 @ 12:52 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The N.C. Supreme Court dismissed as "moot" a request to speed up proceedings in a lawsuit challenging two state constitutional amendments.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 6:59 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. NAACP is seeking a "writ of mandamus" from the N.C. Supreme Court. It would speed up action in a case targeting state constitutional amendments for voter ID and a lower income tax cap.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 9:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A split N.C. Appeals Court panel has blocked a lower court order dealing with disputed state animal waste regulations. Those rules will be delayed as a legal dispute proceeds.
Published: Sunday, October 23rd, 2022 @ 12:10 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will conduct Oct. 3-4 sessions at the historic Chowan County Courthouse in Edenton. Among the five cases are two with significance for N.C. elections.
Published: Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 @ 11:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Court of Appeals has granted a temporary stay in the N.C. Farm Bureau Federation's challenge of state animal waste regulations.
Published: Friday, September 23rd, 2022 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Oct. 3 in a case involving voter ID, followed by an Oct. 4 hearing on disputed statewide election maps.
Published: Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 @ 12:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Supreme Court split along party lines, 4-3, in agreeing to hear a challenge against the state's voter ID law in October.
Published: Sunday, September 18th, 2022 @ 12:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Sen. Amy Galey, R-Alamance, argues that state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls "has no business" taking part in the Leandro school funding case.
Published: Wednesday, August 24th, 2022 @ 12:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Opponents of North Carolina's voter ID law urge the N.C. Supreme Court to hear the case as early as September.
Published: Saturday, July 16th, 2022 @ 8:54 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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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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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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As the Biden administration and Congress struggle with plummeting approval numbers, a battle is being waged in North Carolina and other states over who will control the drawing of congressional districts.
Published: Friday, February 4th, 2022 @ 1:00 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 Democratic frontrunner in North Carolina’s U.S. Senate race and a sitting state Supreme Court justice both appear on a high-profile shortlist of candidates to replace U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:26 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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The N.C. House passed its district map proposal during evening sessions Tuesday, Nov. 2. The Senate is expected to vote on the N.C. House district map on Thursday. Redistricting maps do not go before Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, driving pressure on the legislative process by opposition groups.
Published: Thursday, November 25th, 2021 @ 1:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Interest groups have already filed lawsuits to block approval of new redistricting maps for North Carolina. The maps are still in development with several legislative map proposals having been presented to the public in recent hearings.
Published: Wednesday, November 24th, 2021 @ 10:02 am
By: Carolina Journal
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“The truth is that Beth Woods and Lisa Barnes, a Democrat and a Republican, are operating tactics and strategies out of the old 1898 racist playbook.”
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 10:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Here’s this week’s review:
Published: Monday, April 13th, 2020 @ 11:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will not seek to restore North Carolina's voter identification requirement for the 2020 primary election.
Published: Wednesday, January 15th, 2020 @ 5:48 am
By: Diane Rufino
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein will not seek to restore North Carolina’s voter identification requirement for the 2020 primary election.
Published: Friday, January 3rd, 2020 @ 10:50 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican leaders in the General Assembly want another chance to jump into North Carolina’s voter ID deadlock.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2020 @ 8:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Barring a successful and rapid appeal, North Carolina’s voter ID requirement for the March 2020 primary looks dead.
Published: Thursday, January 2nd, 2020 @ 12:21 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina's new voter ID law is headed to court
Published: Wednesday, December 26th, 2018 @ 2:31 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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An attorney who represented the Bladen County Improvement Association during a 2016 investigation into potential absentee ballot voting misbehavior says the organization was cleared of any wrongdoing
Published: Monday, December 24th, 2018 @ 7:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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