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case is within original jurisdiction of US Supreme Court
Published: Friday, June 21st, 2024 @ 12:35 pm
By: John Steed
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From a Birmingham jail, where he was arrested for trying to help blacks exercise their right to vote, MLK wrote: "Remember, everything that Hitler did was legal."
Published: Monday, January 15th, 2024 @ 9:36 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Illinois has agreed to not enforce a law targeting crisis pregnancy centers in the state after the measure was blocked by a federal judge.
Published: Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024 @ 9:50 am
By: Daily Wire
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A federal judge blocked a California law that allowed the state to punish doctors who shared alleged “misinformation” about COVID.
Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 @ 8:43 pm
By: Daily Wire
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Government is best and most responsive to the individual when it is closest to them. We're talking about the local, the county, and even the state level.
Published: Monday, December 12th, 2022 @ 9:23 am
By: Diane Rufino
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When I talk to folks about the Constitution, I usually comment that “the Constitution holds all the answers to the problems that are plaguing us as a country,” and as a republic.
Published: Thursday, September 15th, 2022 @ 12:03 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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“Nullification” is the doctrine, articulated best by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (our two greatest Founding Fathers) which essentially holds that that the federal government is a creature of the states
Published: Friday, February 18th, 2022 @ 6:12 pm
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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I think of the government as a machine.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 11:16 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a group of law students on Wednesday that while she might not be able to change Texas’s strict new abortion law, they could do something about it.
Published: Sunday, October 31st, 2021 @ 2:17 am
By: Daily Wire
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Three years after the N.C. electorate decided to add a voter identification requirement to the state constitution, Republican lawmakers are defending voter ID in court.
Published: Friday, April 16th, 2021 @ 2:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Election season this year has been like no other.
Published: Saturday, December 5th, 2020 @ 3:12 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The most important elections in North Carolina are the races for the N.C. Supreme Court.
Published: Sunday, October 11th, 2020 @ 10:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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A collection of churches filed a federal lawsuit Thursday, May 14, challenging Gov. Roy Cooper’s executive order banning mass gatherings, a move that has severely limited indoor worship services.
Published: Friday, May 15th, 2020 @ 12:14 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A Winston-Salem surgeon thought he had a good legal case against North Carolina’s certificate-of-need law back in July 2018. More than 18 months later, he still thinks so.
Published: Thursday, February 20th, 2020 @ 8:32 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A surgeon’s lawsuit against state restrictions on medical equipment has fallen victim to an obscure procedural rule.
Published: Saturday, February 15th, 2020 @ 6:44 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The recent rally in Richmond, Virginia pushing back against proposed gun control laws is receiving a lot of national attention. Attendance at the rally was estimated at 22,000 to 30,000.
Published: Friday, January 24th, 2020 @ 4:42 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Loretta Biggs, a federal judge in North Carolina’s middle district, issued a preliminary injunction on New Year’s Eve in NC NAACP v. Cooper.
Published: Wednesday, January 8th, 2020 @ 10:03 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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When conservatives argue for judicial restraint, most don’t mean that the judicial branch ought to be supine and subservient to lawmakers and executives.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2019 @ 9:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Voter ID is constitutional in North Carolina. And not just because more than 2 million voters, 55 percent of those casting ballots, said so last month
Published: Wednesday, December 5th, 2018 @ 10:58 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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In 1791, Thomas Jefferson wrote an opinion on the constitutionality of a National Bank. It is an important commentary on the meaning and intent of the US Constitution, in particular the two general clauses - the General Welfare Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause.
Published: Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 @ 7:55 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Carolina Beach has overturned its law prohibiting out-of-town food trucks from serving the community after the Institute for Justice filed a lawsuit on behalf of food truck owners
Published: Sunday, September 2nd, 2018 @ 8:27 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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A Greensboro-based company told a North Carolina brewer he could get out of his distribution contract if he paid the distributor 16 times more than it cost to get in, an affidavit in a lawsuit filed by a group of North Carolina brewers says
Published: Monday, June 18th, 2018 @ 5:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Political leanings and affectations ebb and flow depending on who the neophyte politician talks to; even, I know when to keep my mouth shut for I will reveal the obvious should I speak too much.
Published: Monday, April 2nd, 2018 @ 9:19 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The plaintiffs in a complaint challenging the constitutionality of two state laws involving beer distribution and franchise laws have filed a brief opposing a state motion to dismiss and transfer the case
Published: Sunday, March 11th, 2018 @ 5:57 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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I know that most people have never heard of the term
Published: Thursday, February 1st, 2018 @ 7:02 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Imagine Hillary Clinton had won the 2016 presidential election and enough democrats won so that she enjoys a friendly Congress.
Published: Sunday, November 5th, 2017 @ 5:38 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Some are touting the federal Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017 (HR 38) as a bill which would expand our right to carry.
Published: Sunday, August 6th, 2017 @ 12:53 am
By: Publius Huldah
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Today, Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein have taken steps to withdraw the state's petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the U.S. Supreme Court of State of North Carolina V. North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP
Published: Thursday, February 23rd, 2017 @ 2:07 am
By: Governor's Office
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The House Elections Committee passed by a 20-8 vote Thursday night a bill that consolidates three state agencies into a new, bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, makes Supreme Court races partisan contests, and amends the Court of Appeals decision-making process
Published: Friday, December 16th, 2016 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Obama intends to ignore the second amendment. The states must stand up to him and the government and protect the people in their essential right to have and bear arms.
Published: Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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An amendment to replace the States' influence in the federal government since the 17th Amendment was adopted.
Published: Tuesday, July 28th, 2015 @ 3:24 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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