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The new Civitas Partisan Index shows North Carolina’s political landscape ahead of 2026.
Published: Monday, November 10th, 2025 @ 11:29 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A majority of Americans are in favor of several different policies aimed at stopping illegal immigration, including building a wall on the southern border, deporting more illegal immigrants, and penalizing the businesses that hire them, a recent poll found.
Published: Monday, May 20th, 2024 @ 2:54 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Both proposed maps favor Republicans.
Published: Saturday, March 16th, 2024 @ 1:35 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Constitutional amendment seeking similar changes to Elections Board overwhelmingly rejected by voters in 2018
Published: Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 @ 11:34 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Senate Bill 749, “No Partisan Advantage in Elections,” passed along party lines in the North Carolina Senate and now moves on to the state House.
Published: Saturday, August 12th, 2023 @ 2:21 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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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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N.C. lawmakers accuse redistricting plaintiffs of trying to "disestablish" the General Assembly's authority to draw state election maps.
Published: Friday, September 30th, 2022 @ 3:25 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Based on a 4-3 vote from the state Supreme Court, a congressional election map drawn by legislators gets tossed out.
Published: Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022 @ 8:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative defendants in North Carolina’s legal fight over new election maps are seeking Supreme Court Justice Sam “Jimmy” Ervin IV’s recusal from the case.
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 9:33 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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After splitting along party lines just twice in their first six months together, the current lineup of the N.C. Supreme Court has produced four more 4-3 partisan splits today.
Published: Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 @ 9:29 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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With the U.S. Supreme Court shutting the door this month on future legal action, a state Supreme Court decision will continue to dictate the University of North Carolina’s compliance with public records requests linked to sexual assaults.
Published: Wednesday, January 20th, 2021 @ 12:08 am
By: Carolina Journal
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You might expect that the 2020 N.C. Supreme Court elections will guarantee plenty of 4-3 rulings in the year ahead.
Published: Thursday, January 7th, 2021 @ 4:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A recent News & Observer editorial on redistricting claimed that “the numbers (of districts likely to be won by either Republicans or Democrats) are irrelevant if the redistricting process remains — as it has — purely partisan.”
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2019 @ 4:07 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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As the map drawing progresses in the General Assembly in the wake of the Harper v Lewis preliminary injunction, all of the maps so far produced by members of the Joint Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting have either an 8-5 or 7-6 likely split in favor of Republicans.
Published: Tuesday, November 19th, 2019 @ 2:37 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Gov. Roy Cooper named Damon Circosta to fill the vacancy on the State Board of Elections.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 3:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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As a three-judge panel heard a second week of testimony in Common Cause v. Lewis, defense attorneys and witnesses tried to cast doubt on the ability of statistical analysis to predict how North Carolinians would vote in legislative elections.
Published: Saturday, July 27th, 2019 @ 10:55 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Most debate about gerrymandering reform focuses on partisan outcomes. Reformers argue that objectionable election maps favor one major political party while hurting the other.
Published: Wednesday, July 24th, 2019 @ 3:41 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican lawmakers unveiled a new bill at a Tuesday, Dec. 11 news conference which would return the Bipartisan Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement to two separate boards after years of court battles over the merger
Published: Friday, December 14th, 2018 @ 12:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Earlier this week, President Donald Trump drew inflammatory headlines from the mainstream media over his declaration to end birthright citizenship.
Published: Sunday, November 4th, 2018 @ 1:48 am
By: Daily Wire
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Critics have devised reasonable arguments against each of the six constitutional amendments on North Carolina’s election ballot. But outlandish claims about the amendments threaten to drown out serious messages that might sway undecided voters
Published: Sunday, October 28th, 2018 @ 3:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Listen to this state's only two-term Republican governor, and you'll hear that GOP legislators are "trying to put unconstitutional things in the state constitution to make them not unconstitutional anymore."
Published: Monday, October 22nd, 2018 @ 11:01 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Much of the conversation surrounding this year’s N.C. Supreme Court election focuses on the potential impact for the court’s partisan makeup
Published: Thursday, September 20th, 2018 @ 12:29 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a joint session of the House and the Senate, Republican legislators rejected two of the three nominees for the State Board of Education to the confusion of Democrats
Published: Thursday, July 12th, 2018 @ 10:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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SurveyUSA, along with the Civitas Institute, a nonprofit conservative public policy organization, released findings from a flash poll showing a majority of voters support several constitutional amendments proposed this year
Published: Monday, June 25th, 2018 @ 11:19 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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For the second straight election cycle, a race for a single seat on the N.C. Supreme Court could end up playing a more important role than most voters realize
Published: Wednesday, May 23rd, 2018 @ 4:42 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The N.C. Supreme Court will have another chance to join the political tug of war pitting Gov. Roy Cooper against state legislative leaders. How the high court responds to that opportunity will offer more clues about its willingness to play partisan politics
Published: Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 @ 10:06 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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When the North Carolina Senate recently passed a bill with several moving parts - a newly reconstituted State Board of Elections, a rebuff of Gov. Roy Cooper’s attempt to evade legislative control of state revenue, and a multi-year fix to a funding dispute about class size
Published: Wednesday, February 14th, 2018 @ 8:38 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In a 4-3 ruling along party lines, the N.C. Supreme Court on Friday ruled for Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper in the lawsuit between the governor and General Assembly leadership over the Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement
Published: Monday, January 29th, 2018 @ 1:47 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Roy Cooper’s legal team is counting on the N.C. Supreme Court to overturn a recent trial-court ruling in a dispute over state elections management
Published: Sunday, November 26th, 2017 @ 9:28 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republicans consistently support issues vital to business and industry, while Democrats’ actions show lower enthusiasm for entrepreneurship, a survey of General Assembly members concluded
Published: Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 @ 7:32 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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