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Republican leaders of the North Carolina General Assembly have rejected Gov. Josh Stein’s call for an extra legislative session dealing with Medicaid next week, calling the move unconstitutional and unnecessary.
Published: Saturday, November 15th, 2025 @ 10:59 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A three-judge panel has upheld North Carolina's 2018 state constitutional amendments mandating voter ID and lowering the state's income tax cap.
Published: Monday, September 8th, 2025 @ 10:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Members of North Carolina’s congressional delegation recently introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Act (HR38), spearheaded by Republican US Rep. Richard Hudson, NC-09, chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Published: Thursday, January 9th, 2025 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The federal government has filed a court document arguing that North Carolina's new ban on gender transition surgeries for minors violates the US Constitution.
Published: Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 @ 8:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The Gaston County school board is appealing the state Court of Appeals' Sept. 12 ruling upholding North Carolina's SAFE Child Act as constitutional.
Published: Monday, January 1st, 2024 @ 12:06 am
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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The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law backs plaintiffs challenging the funding arrangement of Greenville's now-dismantled red-light camera enforcement program.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2023 @ 1:51 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A five-year-old lawsuit challenging North Carolina's voter ID and tax cap state constitutional amendments will head to a three-judge panel.
Published: Friday, November 3rd, 2023 @ 12:03 am
By: Carolina Journal
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When the North Carolina Supreme Court ruled on our state’s voter ID law on April 28th, the justices only had to answer one narrow question: “[Does the voter ID law] violate the meaningful protections set forth in Article I, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution?”
Published: Friday, June 2nd, 2023 @ 1:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The American Civil Liberties Union is going to federal court to challenge North Carolina's new anti-riot law. ACLU claims "multiple provisions" of the law are "facially unconstitutional."
Published: Monday, May 8th, 2023 @ 11:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill requiring students at state universities to take a three-credit hour course on the U.S. Constitution and other founding documents by a vote of 69-47.
Published: Thursday, April 13th, 2023 @ 8:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Michigan could be the first state in nearly 60 years to repeal a “Right to Work” (RTW) law.
Published: Saturday, April 1st, 2023 @ 12:14 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. Attorney General is asking a federal court to declare North Carolina's 1931 criminal libel law unconstitutional.
Published: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023 @ 7:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, North Carolina legislators took a step toward repealing the literacy test requirement from the N.C. Constitution. Legislators heard House Bill 44 in the Judiciary 2 committee Wednesday. The bill would place a constitutional amendment on the 2024 general election ballot.
Published: Sunday, March 19th, 2023 @ 5:38 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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I spoke in favor of House Bill 44, removing the literacy test from the North Carolina Constitution at a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee on the morning of March 1. My prepared comments are below:
Published: Sunday, March 12th, 2023 @ 8:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The literacy test should be removed from the North Carolina Constitution
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 10:03 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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State Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wants to remove North Carolina’s Jim Crow-era literacy test for voters. It “ought to be out of our constitution,” Berger said.
Published: Monday, February 13th, 2023 @ 6:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina State Constitution unequivocally declares, “The legislative, executive, and supreme judicial powers shall be forever separate and distinct from each other”
Published: Thursday, February 9th, 2023 @ 2:43 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In recent elections, North Carolina has often been referred to as a battleground state. In some ways, that was the case in the late 1780s. On November 21, 1789, North Carolina approved the U.S. Constitution. It was not a quick decision.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 8:55 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled Friday that a constitutional amendment implementing voter ID requirements may be invalid because the legislature that passed it was racially gerrymandered.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2022 @ 9:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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With words not so complicated in clarity, but are proven beyond their capability to fathom in purpose; evidenced by their pejorative words of pure conjecture to corporately misunderstand the essential nature, the core machinations of those self-asserted issues important to their corporate identity.
Published: Monday, August 29th, 2022 @ 9:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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After the decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health by the U.S. Supreme Court, women in North Carolina are no longer guaranteed a federal constitutional right to abortion.
Published: Thursday, July 14th, 2022 @ 4:16 pm
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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One line in a new court order could mark a major new development in the long-running legal battle over education funding in North Carolina. The line strikes at the heart of a constitutional dispute about $1.7 billion that has reached the state’s highest court.
Published: Monday, March 28th, 2022 @ 2:41 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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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 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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North Carolina’s state constitution, in Article IX, section 1 (“Education Encouraged”), reads: “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools, libraries, and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.”
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 10:24 am
By: Diane Rufino
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North Carolina’s Certificate of Need statute intentionally restricts the supply of medical services. It forces medical service providers to obtain a certificate of need (CON) before opening new or expanded facilities, installing new or additional equipment, or even, in some instances, treating more
Published: Monday, January 17th, 2022 @ 1:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Resolution in Defense of Free and Fair, Constitutionally Conducted Elections in North Carolina and All of the United States of America's 50 States.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 4:21 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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In an inestimable year of damage done to our Constitutional Republic by the politicization of Covid, and to the People and small businesses of North Carolina, who are damaged by the tyranny of bad governing by an Authoritarian executive branch, accountability must now reign.
Published: Saturday, January 15th, 2022 @ 12:44 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Four Democrat justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court could become the “Usurper Four” if they manage to remove two of their colleagues from a case involving Constitutional Amendments that were voted on in 2018.
Published: Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 @ 4:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Those “spending rules” are codified in the North Carolina Constitution and have been since 1776. Our system of government could not run without them.
Published: Tuesday, January 11th, 2022 @ 9:26 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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oday, Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein filed an amicus brief in the North Carolina Supreme Court that urges the Court to quickly hear and decide two cases that challenge the constitutionality of congressional and state legislative districts enacted by the Republican members.
Published: Wednesday, December 8th, 2021 @ 11:20 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Today, Judge Lee trampled the North Carolina constitution and embraced a brazen scheme to sidestep the elected members of the General Assembly and raid the public purse.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A North Carolina county is insisting that its local school board institute a policy that would discipline or fire teachers if they assert that the American Founders were not heroes, if they make statements undermining the Constitution, or if they assert that racism is endemic in America.
Published: Sunday, November 7th, 2021 @ 12:08 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A split 2-1 state Superior Court panel has rejected North Carolina’s voter ID law, five months after holding a trial in the case. The court majority labeled the 2018 law racially discriminatory and unconstitutional.
Published: Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021 @ 8:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson recently announced that he would not run for US Senate in 2022, but his testimony today before the US House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties shows that Congress is a poorer body for his absence.
Published: Sunday, May 2nd, 2021 @ 12:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Voters in North Carolina could decide next year to limit the governor’s emergency powers, under a proposed constitutional amendment filed Wednesday, April 14, in the N.C. House.
Published: Friday, April 23rd, 2021 @ 2:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The General Assembly will consider a measure to enshrine North Carolina’s right-to-work policies in the state constitution.
Published: Friday, April 9th, 2021 @ 8:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The vast majority of respondents to a new John Locke Foundation poll of likely 2022 general election voters in North Carolina support the state’s right-to-work law and would support a right-to-work amendment to the N.C. Constitution.
Published: Monday, March 22nd, 2021 @ 9:20 am
By: Carolina Journal
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