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one backed by NCAE teachers union and the other by liberal Senate boss Phil Berger
Published: Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 @ 12:50 pm
By: John Steed
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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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North Carolina’s Republican legislative leadership never met a tax they didn’t want to cut. Since taking control of state government in 2011, they have cut corporate tax rates from 6.9 percent to the current 2.0 percent.
Published: Sunday, October 26th, 2025 @ 6:07 pm
By: Tom Campbell
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Voter identification opponents defend their request to reopen discovery in a federal lawsuit. Republican legislative leaders and the State Board of Elections oppose new discovery.
Published: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023 @ 8:13 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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RALEIGH: As legislative Republicans in North Carolina continue their all-out assault on the right to vote, Governor Roy Cooper wrote an opinion piece for CNN condemning these dangerous bills and urging people to make their voices heard.
Published: Monday, October 16th, 2023 @ 6:56 am
By: Governor's Office
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles has issued an order confirming that Republican legislative leaders can continue defending North Carolina's new abortion law in federal court.
Published: Wednesday, September 20th, 2023 @ 2:23 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican state legislative leaders and Democratic N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein take contrasting approaches to a proposed temporary restraining order against North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Tuesday, September 12th, 2023 @ 7:40 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles will allow top Republican legislative leaders to take part in Wednesday's hearing in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's new abortion law.
Published: Wednesday, September 6th, 2023 @ 12:16 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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On Tuesday, the Republican-led North Carolina Senate voted to override four of Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes, bringing the chamber’s total number of veto overrides this legislative session to all six.
Published: Wednesday, August 16th, 2023 @ 1:07 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders defy the grassroots
Published: Monday, August 7th, 2023 @ 10:26 pm
By: John Steed
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On Wednesday, Republican legislative leaders filed a bill that would ensure North Carolinians are not coerced into joining labor unions.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 3:40 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Ron DeSantis Pushes ‘Toughest’ Illegal Immigration Crackdown In Country With New Legislative PackageThe Republican-controlled Florida Legislature is in the process of considering an aggressive set of legislative proposals from Gov. Ron DeSantis to combat the illegal immigration crisis that has exploded during President Joe Biden’s administration.
Published: Friday, May 12th, 2023 @ 1:08 am
By: Daily Wire
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The N.C. Justice Department and lawyers representing Republican legislative leaders take opposite stances in new Moore v. Harper briefs at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Tuesday, April 11th, 2023 @ 7:12 am
By: Carolina Journal
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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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Gov. Roy Cooper and N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein, both Democrats, filed a motion Friday opposing Republican legislative leaders in a redistricting case at the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Wednesday, March 22nd, 2023 @ 12:01 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis slammed the legacy media during a press conference Thursday about his new legislative push taking action against illegal immigration amid President Joe Biden’s ongoing crisis at the southern border.
Published: Saturday, March 4th, 2023 @ 3:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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A leading House Republican says the congressional investigation into Hunter Biden is essential to creating a “legislative fix” to prevent unsavory financial entanglements involving the president of the United States.
Published: Monday, February 20th, 2023 @ 8:53 am
By: Daily Wire
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House Republicans, who are now in control of the legislative body, voted Monday evening to cut billions of dollars to the Internal Revenue Service after the agency received a significant boost in funding in the Democrats’ Inflation Reduction Act.
Published: Saturday, January 14th, 2023 @ 4:01 pm
By: Daily Wire
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Wisconsin Republicans challenging “redistricting” efforts from Democrats in the state, throwing out legislative maps drawn by Democratic Governor Tony Evers and adopted by its highest court, The Washington Post reported.
Published: Monday, December 26th, 2022 @ 4:35 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Raleigh, NC – The NC House Republican Caucus today unanimously re-elected Representative John Bell (R-Wayne) as their House Majority Leader for the 2023-2024 legislative session.
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2022 @ 12:41 am
By: ENC NOW
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Pennsylvania state Senate Republicans are throwing their support behind N.C. legislative leaders in the Moore v. Harper case at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Thursday, September 8th, 2022 @ 10:37 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders and their redistricting critics could battle over court-ordered fees for the work of special masters.
Published: Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 4:26 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Today, The North State Journal reported on the diverse slate of candidates the North Carolina Republican Party nominated in state legislative races, demonstrating the Party’s commitment to electing leaders who better reflect their communities.
Published: Wednesday, June 8th, 2022 @ 9:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawyers representing N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican legislative leaders want the state Supreme Court to reject a lawsuit linked to now-repealed Mecklenburg County judicial districts.
Published: Friday, March 18th, 2022 @ 11:20 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A small advantage in public support Republicans have over Democrats translates into a larger advantage in both statewide and legislative races
Published: Tuesday, February 15th, 2022 @ 3:51 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A new Cygnal survey commissioned by the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC) shows that the radical liberal agenda being pursued by President Biden and his allies in Washington, D.C. is sinking Democrats at the state legislative level in a number of key battleground states across the country
Published: Friday, January 28th, 2022 @ 11:11 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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State Controller Linda Combs and Republican legislative leaders are asking the N.C. Supreme Court not to step into the latest dispute involving the long-running Leandro school funding case. At stake is $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds.
Published: Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 @ 10:11 am
By: Carolina Journal
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While all eyes were on Virginia and New Jersey elections on Tuesday, N.C. Republicans quietly followed the same pattern, flipping key elections in areas critical to legislative and congressional elections next year.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 3:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned Senate Democrats on Tuesday of what the Republican Party would do if Democrats attempted to go for a power grab by eliminating the legislative filibuster.
Published: Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 8:02 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Rep.-elect David Willis (R-Union) was elected by his Republican colleagues last week to serve as their Freshman Leader in the 2021-2022 legislative session.
Published: Thursday, December 17th, 2020 @ 12:24 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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The NC House Republican Caucus today unanimously re-elected Representative John Bell (R - Greene, Johnston and Wayne) as their Majority Leader for the 2021-2022 legislative session.
Published: Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 @ 10:42 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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President Donald Trump and Senator Thom Tillis led Republicans to strong victories across the state in Council of State, judicial and legislative races.
Published: Wednesday, November 4th, 2020 @ 5:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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On Friday, Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Greg Gebhardt received a formal endorsement from David Lewis, a key legislative leader in the State House, serving as chairman of the powerful Rules Committee.
Published: Monday, February 24th, 2020 @ 10:01 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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A new N.C. Free Enterprise Foundation report shows Republican lawmakers scored an average of 91.95% on business-related decisions during the 2019 legislative session.
Published: Sunday, December 8th, 2019 @ 8:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Republican legislative leaders have offered a consistent argument throughout a nearly decade-long legal fight over state election maps.
Published: Saturday, November 23rd, 2019 @ 6:04 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Governor Roy Cooper today sent a letter to Republican legislative leadership encouraging them to stay in Raleigh and negotiate teacher pay with him.
Published: Monday, November 18th, 2019 @ 7:36 am
By: Governor's Office
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Months after the start of school, Republican legislative leaders are passing yet another sweeping corporate tax cut, but they still have not done anything to raise teacher pay.
Published: Thursday, October 24th, 2019 @ 12:55 pm
By: Governor's Office
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Sadie Weiner, Communications Director for Governor Roy Cooper, shared the following statement after Senator Thom Tillis and Republican legislative leaders' disaster recovery press conference today
Published: Saturday, August 31st, 2019 @ 2:25 am
By: Governor's Office
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North Carolina taxpayers could get a check from the state by late November.
Published: Monday, August 26th, 2019 @ 1:35 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Thirty-five days ago, Governor Roy Cooper sent a balanced budget compromise offer to Republican legislative leadership.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 11:50 am
By: Governor's Office
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