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castrating the courts
Published: Tuesday, July 30th, 2024 @ 4:24 pm
By: John Steed
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A three-judge Superior Court panel granted part of Gov. Roy Cooper's request for an injunction against a new state law shifting government appointment powers.
Published: Monday, March 4th, 2024 @ 2:24 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Border Patrol officials told lawmakers that smugglers charge illegal immigrants from China up to $60,000 to unlawfully enter the United States, according to a report released on Tuesday from Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security.
Published: Friday, February 2nd, 2024 @ 11:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) failed to suitably report billions of dollars in fiscal 2022 spending, the agency’s inspector general determined, prompting condemnation from GOP lawmakers.
Published: Saturday, January 27th, 2024 @ 11:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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On Friday, Sept. 22, the General Assembly passed a budget which contains a new provision that would allow lawmakers total discretion over destroying records.
Published: Sunday, January 14th, 2024 @ 2:09 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Hunter Biden made direct monthly payments to President Joe Biden — beginning in 2018 — using an account for his business that reportedly received money from China, according to GOP House Oversight Committee lawmakers.
Published: Thursday, December 21st, 2023 @ 11:49 am
By: Daily Wire
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The Biden family “brand” helped a Ukrainian energy company stay in business, a former associate of first son Hunter Biden told lawmakers this week.
Published: Sunday, December 10th, 2023 @ 12:04 am
By: Daily Wire
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Border Patrol chiefs told lawmakers that they are seeing an historic number of illegal immigrants released into the U.S. as encounters reach record highs, according to interviews released on Sunday.
Published: Saturday, December 9th, 2023 @ 8:40 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The Pentagon has failed to pass its annual financial audit for the sixth consecutive year, prompting conservative lawmakers to call for consequences for the Department of Defense.
Published: Friday, December 1st, 2023 @ 11:29 pm
By: Daily Wire
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As part of President Joe Biden's aggressive push to fight consumer junk fees, Democrat lawmakers have announced plans to raise taxes on consumers.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 12:08 pm
By: Babylon Bee
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Department of Health commissioned a survey distributed to state and county leaders exploring a ban on all tobacco products, despite lawmakers’ declining support to prohibit menthol cigarettes and other flavored products.
Published: Sunday, November 19th, 2023 @ 11:13 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The budget our legislature has passed is the cherry on top of the upside-down power grab cake our lawmakers have been baking since January.
Published: Wednesday, October 25th, 2023 @ 12:11 am
By: Tom Campbell
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Wake County's Only Republican Lawmaker Invests $400,000 to Begin Campaign
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 8:51 am
By: ENC NOW
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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) subpoenaed an FBI agent accused of coordinating suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story after the Justice Department prevented the agent from appearing for a transcribed interview with lawmakers.
Published: Sunday, October 8th, 2023 @ 12:56 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Ford announced on Monday that it is pausing construction on a multi-billion dollar battery plant in Marshall, Michigan that had drawn scrutiny from U.S. lawmakers over the company’s partnership with Chinese battery-maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd., or CATL.
Published: Thursday, October 5th, 2023 @ 10:23 am
By: Daily Wire
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A border patrol sector chief has been reinstated to his previous position after he was reassigned following an interview with congressional lawmakers, according to House Republicans.
Published: Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 @ 12:26 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has continued to push forward with his pro-parental rights agenda as he campaigns for state lawmakers ahead of this November’s elections in the state.
Published: Friday, September 22nd, 2023 @ 3:30 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Roy Cooper could soon be uncapping his veto pen yet again after the North Carolina General Assembly gave final approval to a Parents’ Bill of Rights on June 29.
Published: Sunday, September 17th, 2023 @ 3:36 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Gov. Roy Cooper signed two bills into law Monday and vetoed three, with one in particular raising disapproval from two Council of State members who call for lawmakers to override it.
Published: Sunday, August 13th, 2023 @ 5:30 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The House voted on Thursday evening to block the Pentagon from spending taxpayer dollars on funding travel for women in the military seeking abortions as lawmakers prepare to vote on the annual National Defense Authorization Act.
Published: Tuesday, August 1st, 2023 @ 2:42 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Hunter Biden’s plea deal to federal tax and gun charges will have no impact on a House probe into the alleged international bribery schemes of him and his father, President Joe Biden, a key lawmaker cowed Tuesday.
Published: Monday, July 17th, 2023 @ 12:59 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A bill presented by a bipartisan group of North Carolina lawmakers looks to expand teaching opportunities for ethnic-minority males.
Published: Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 @ 10:50 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Wednesday, the North Carolina House passed a bill to fund students through a method lawmakers have deemed “backpack funding” rather than funding government schools directly.
Published: Wednesday, June 21st, 2023 @ 3:12 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Monday, news broke that state House Rep. Erin Pare, R-Wake, is weighing a run for Congress. Pare is currently the only Republican lawmaker who represents part of Wake County.
Published: Sunday, June 11th, 2023 @ 6:56 am
By: Carolina Journal
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House Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry (R-PA) blasted White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre after she said that lawmakers have “limited time” to raise the debt ceiling
Published: Sunday, May 21st, 2023 @ 3:58 am
By: Daily Wire
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Officials in China “resolutely oppose” a potential forced sale of social media platform TikTok in the United States from its Chinese parent company, a move that many American lawmakers have floated in response to national security and data privacy issues linked to the company.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 6:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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A group of Republican and Democratic lawmakers recently announced in a press conference that addressing early childhood education policy would be a priority this legislative session.
Published: Monday, April 10th, 2023 @ 12:22 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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President Joe Biden has asked for millions in taxpayer dollars to go toward “pandemic preparedness” and “global health security,” even as the origins of COVID have come under scrutiny from lawmakers in recent days.
Published: Saturday, March 18th, 2023 @ 3:52 pm
By: Daily Wire
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After offering the public unvarnished views of dramatic scenes during the House speaker vote last week, C-SPAN could regain control of cameras in the House chamber thanks to a new amendment being offered by a Republican lawmaker.
Published: Sunday, January 15th, 2023 @ 7:05 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The North Carolina House Select Committee on Advancing Women in STEM passed a set of recommendations to lawmakers on Dec. 6 on ways to recruit and retain more women and minorities in STEM fields.
Published: Wednesday, January 4th, 2023 @ 3:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Thursday, 258-169, that would codify same-sex marriage protections into law, despite opposition from most GOP lawmakers who argue the bill’s language infringes on religious freedoms. The bill will now be sent to President Biden for signature.
Published: Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 @ 1:51 am
By: Daily Wire
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Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom unveiled a “price gouging penalty” for oil companies this week as Golden State lawmakers assembled to deliberate energy policy.
Published: Sunday, December 11th, 2022 @ 9:29 am
By: Daily Wire
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Republican members of Congress blasted a plan from President Joe Biden to cancel $10,000 in student loans per borrower, arguing that the move benefits wealthy elites at the expense of middle America.
Published: Tuesday, September 6th, 2022 @ 3:59 am
By: Daily Wire
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A day before Wednesday's arguments in the Leandro case, justices voted along party lines to reject lawmakers' request to drop the plaintiffs Earls represented.
Published: Saturday, September 3rd, 2022 @ 12:42 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Federal agents confiscated the personal cellphone of Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) while he was traveling on Tuesday with his family, the lawmaker says.
Published: Wednesday, August 17th, 2022 @ 10:19 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Federal law enforcement officials reportedly “delivered subpoenas or paid visits” to several Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers this week following their raid on former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence at Mar-a-Lago.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 8:41 am
By: Daily Wire
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The 2021 session of the General Assembly began in January, as the world was entering its second year of the pandemic. The hope was the COVID fog would lift, allowing a return to normalcy, at least in a relative sense, and that lawmakers could go about business as usual.
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Democrat President Joe Biden’s administration is reportedly blocking a bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers from being able to access a military facility run by the U.S. Military in Doha, Qatar, where thousands of Afghan nationals are being held prior to being released into the U.S.
Published: Thursday, February 10th, 2022 @ 9:44 am
By: Daily Wire
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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein want the state Supreme Court to throw out new statewide election maps.
Published: Tuesday, January 25th, 2022 @ 9:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. legislature passed the Accountability and Fair Play in Athletics on Wednesday, Nov. 17. The conference report for this bill is one of several policy measures working its way quickly through committees as lawmakers look to wrap up a drawn-out legislative session.
Published: Sunday, December 5th, 2021 @ 4:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Leadership or staff from the company contracted to operate the state’s liquor warehouse and delivery system won’t meet with lawmakers to explain why N.C. ABC stores around the state have so many empty shelves.
Published: Saturday, December 4th, 2021 @ 7:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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