Judicial Watch experts were up on Capitol Hill earlier this month explaining the implications of a big 6-3 Supreme Court ruling in the fierce battle for clean elections.
Published: Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 @ 4:40 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Judicial Watch announced today that Senior Attorney T. Russell Nobile will provide testimony tomorrow, July 14
Published: Thursday, July 15th, 2021 @ 8:41 am
By: Judicial Watch
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The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Arizona’s bans against ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct Election Day voting.
Published: Friday, July 9th, 2021 @ 11:09 am
By: Carolina Journal
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On November 6, an amendment to the North Carolina constitution requiring voters to present a photo identification for voting in person (the "Voter ID" amendment) passed with 55 percent support.
Published: Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019 @ 12:37 am
By: Diane Rufino
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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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These descriptors were tossed around the N.C. House floor during a Dec. 5 debate over a bill which codifies a new constitutional amendment requiring voters to present photo identification at the ballot box
Published: Sunday, December 9th, 2018 @ 7:10 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Investigate Attorney General Josh Stein, says a former member of the Federal Elections Commission
Published: Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 @ 12:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Although recent court decisions might lead you to think otherwise, North Carolina voters are probably going to have to present photo identification to cast ballots in the near future
Published: Monday, June 12th, 2017 @ 11:49 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Who represents the people of North Carolina: the governor or the General Assembly
Published: Friday, March 24th, 2017 @ 2:32 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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After tonight's State Board of Elections decision, it is clear that most aspects of the 2016 election are ready to be concluded
Published: Tuesday, November 29th, 2016 @ 2:06 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay - or delay - a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned the state's voter ID law.
Published: Wednesday, August 31st, 2016 @ 10:16 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Recent debates about the legal challenge of North Carolina's 2013 election law highlight a particularly disturbing feature of present-day political discourse: Pundits and politicians frequently fail to acknowledge the important differences between a policy debate and a legal dispute
Published: Saturday, August 27th, 2016 @ 12:22 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A top election law adviser to legislative leaders suggests the U.S. Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts could have a decision fairly quickly on whether to delay an order by an appeals court striking down North Carolina's voter ID law
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2016 @ 4:44 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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With fewer than 90 days before the November 8th elections it is fitting to consider who can and will vote and what can be done to encourage voter turnout
Published: Saturday, August 13th, 2016 @ 1:02 am
By: Tom Campbell
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused on Thursday to put a hold on its order striking down North Carolina's voter ID law and related election reforms while the opinion is on appeal.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2016 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned major chunks of North Carolina's broad election reform law passed in 2013, claiming that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Schroeder committed factual errors when he threw out challenges to the law
Published: Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016 @ 5:04 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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If Republicans have been attempting to suppress the vote in North Carolina, they must be the most incompetent tyrants in modern American history.
Published: Thursday, March 31st, 2016 @ 2:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When WRAL reported on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals' decision to throw out North Carolina's congressional maps barely a month ahead of the 2016 Primary, the station's "journalists" turned to their friends in three different organizations belonging to Blueprint NC (the "eviscerate"* group)...
Published: Monday, March 14th, 2016 @ 3:20 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Anyone who writes or comments about politics will make predictions that fail to come true. I certainly have.
Published: Monday, September 28th, 2015 @ 5:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government's lawsuit against North Carolina election laws could have "extraordinary ramifications for the United States," an election law expert told a Tuesday meeting of the Campbell Law School Federalist Society.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 5:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The hearing that will determine the fate of North Carolina's election reform law wrapped up Aug. 7. Groups that included the NC NAACP and the League of Women Voters of NC, joined by Eric Holder's (and Loretta Lynch's) U.S. Justice Department, are suing the state over election reform legislation (th
Published: Sunday, August 23rd, 2015 @ 11:16 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Turnout in the Nov. 4 midterm election appeared to rebuff claims that the sweeping 2013 election reform law passed by the General Assembly led to voter suppression.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:08 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As early voting opens for the 2014 general election, an attorney representing the state in the lawsuit fighting state election law reforms is seeking further information regarding statements made earlier this month by the Rev. William Barber at the state NAACP convention.
Published: Tuesday, October 28th, 2014 @ 2:48 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted the block on North Carolina’s election-law changes for the 2014 campaign. It was a dramatic end to months of dire warnings, raucous debate, and courtroom machinations
Published: Friday, October 17th, 2014 @ 5:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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North Carolina's 2014 general election will take place under the election laws enacted last year by the General Assembly as the result of a ruling late Wednesday by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Saturday, October 11th, 2014 @ 12:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The U.S. Supreme Court today stayed a federal appeals court order that would have enjoined parts of North Carolina's new voting law regarding same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting.
Published: Thursday, October 9th, 2014 @ 12:00 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The Fourth Circuit today reinstated same-day registration and out-of-precinct voting ahead of the General Election in November.
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 2:45 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A mere 22 days before the start of early voting and with 4 million voter guides in the mail to North Carolina residents, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ruled that the state cannot enforce...
Published: Saturday, October 4th, 2014 @ 1:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The Advancement Project, in a press release dated August 21, announced that the North Carolina NAACP was appealing U.S. District Judge Thomas D. Schroeder’s decision earlier this month to deny a preliminary injunction to block certain provisions of VIVA in the November 2014 election.
Published: Thursday, August 28th, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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A parade of witnesses came to testify against North Carolina’s new voting reforms – but a look at their backgrounds shows they all have ties to the radical liberal network of groups known as Blueprint NC and/or have strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Published: Friday, August 8th, 2014 @ 12:57 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A hearing that liberal groups hoped would undermine North Carolina voting reform instead appears to have revealed their true objectives.
Published: Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014 @ 6:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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You've heard it from the Left. You've heard it from the press and on TV. It's all over the Internet. The Voter Suppression Act. Disenfranchised voters. One of the nation's most restrictive voter ID laws. Sweeping. Controversial. Restrictive. Fiercely contested. Assault on democracy.
Published: Sunday, September 8th, 2013 @ 6:19 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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While the many are trying desperately to convince North Carolinians otherwise, the passage of House Bill 589 is unlikely to have a big effect on voter participation in 2014, 2016, and beyond.
Published: Wednesday, August 21st, 2013 @ 6:07 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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