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US District Judge William Osteen heard nearly three hours of arguments Thursday in state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission.
Published: Sunday, March 17th, 2024 @ 5:49 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A hearing is scheduled Nov. 2 in Greensboro in state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' federal First Amendment lawsuit against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission.
Published: Sunday, February 25th, 2024 @ 10:46 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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A group of 16 self-described civil rights organizations and 20 legal ethics professors have filed separate briefs supporting a First Amendment lawsuit from state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls.
Published: Friday, February 23rd, 2024 @ 7:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission is urging a federal court to reject a preliminary injunction and dismiss a First Amendment lawsuit from state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls.
Published: Sunday, February 4th, 2024 @ 8:58 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Federal Judge William Osteen criticized state Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls and the state Judicial Standards Commission on Friday for "inflammatory" language in recent court filings.
Published: Monday, December 25th, 2023 @ 3:30 am
By: Carolina Journal
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State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls' federal First Amendment lawsuit has been reassigned from a judge appointed by former President Barack Obama to a colleague appointed by former President George W. Bush.
Published: Friday, December 8th, 2023 @ 5:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls is suing the state’s Judicial Standards Commission to make them end investigations into some of her public statements
Published: Tuesday, December 5th, 2023 @ 11:26 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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N.C. legislative leaders have asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit targeting state laws against abortion pills.
Published: Saturday, April 15th, 2023 @ 9:39 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Preparred, but unspoken, public comment on the Election Day Integrity Act:
Published: Friday, April 14th, 2023 @ 2:44 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A federal judge has granted N.C. legislative leaders' request to intervene in a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion pill restrictions.
Published: Sunday, April 2nd, 2023 @ 1:00 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein does not oppose state legislative leaders intervening in a lawsuit challenging state restrictions on abortion pills.
Published: Thursday, March 16th, 2023 @ 12:52 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The UNC Health doctor challenging North Carolina's laws regarding abortion pills does not oppose legislative leaders' involvement in her lawsuit.
Published: Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 @ 7:17 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Legislative leaders have filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit targeting North Carolina's law banning abortion pills.
Published: Saturday, March 11th, 2023 @ 11:18 am
By: Carolina Journal
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N.C. legislative leaders have filed a final brief asking a federal judge to dismiss the Common Cause v. Moore lawsuit. It aims to give unaffiliated voters access to seats on the State Board of Elections.
Published: Monday, December 19th, 2022 @ 9:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Questions are being raised about how much more restrictive North Carolina's abortion law may become after the GOP became one vote shy of a supermajority after the General Election.
Published: Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 @ 6:00 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Top legislative leaders urge U.S. District Judge William Osteen to dismiss a lawsuit from unaffiliated voters. It challenges a state law limiting membership on the State Board of Elections to Democrats and Republicans.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2022 @ 12:38 am
By: Carolina Journal
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U.S. District Judge William Osteen is ending his injunction of North Carolina's abortion law, allowing a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks to take effect.
Published: Monday, August 22nd, 2022 @ 10:34 am
By: Carolina Journal
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abortions after 20 weeks now illegal in North Carolina
Published: Thursday, August 18th, 2022 @ 7:59 am
By: John Steed
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On July 8, Judge William Osteen, a federal judge appointed by President George W. Bush, gave all sides in the Bryant v. Woodall case 30 days to return briefs to the court on whether the injunction blocking North Carolina’s 20-week abortion ban should be lifted.
Published: Friday, August 12th, 2022 @ 7:08 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore
Published: Monday, June 27th, 2022 @ 1:27 pm
By: Countrygirl1411
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After the well-publicized leak of a draft decision from the U.S. Supreme Court, it appears a majority of the court could overturn the current federal precedent — as laid out in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The decision is likely to be released in May or June.
Published: Friday, May 13th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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The number of abortions performed annually in N.C. decreased by 36% between 1980 and 2013.
Published: Monday, May 9th, 2022 @ 11:33 am
By: Carolina Journal
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I spoke today at the General Assembly in favor of S326, entitled “Election Day Integrity Act.”
Published: Thursday, July 8th, 2021 @ 2:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican lawmakers grilled State Board of Elections Director Karen Brinson Bell over her handling of the 2020 election in a testy back-and-forth hearing.
Published: Monday, April 5th, 2021 @ 7:31 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The N.C. Senate is summoning the director of the State Board of Elections to answer questions about a controversial settlement she negotiated that upended voting rules just weeks before November’s election.
Published: Wednesday, March 24th, 2021 @ 11:39 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Though it is well-established and easy to see by the plain language of the statute and the settlement, Bell strongly declared at the end of her testimony that the collusive settlement “did not change the law."
Published: Friday, February 26th, 2021 @ 11:49 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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A federal judge noted his “serious concerns” about the N.C. state elections board in an order issued Friday, Oct. 30.
Published: Friday, November 6th, 2020 @ 6:07 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Given voting challenges amid COVID-19, what can you actually expect to know about ballot results at the close of Election Day?
Published: Saturday, October 24th, 2020 @ 3:14 am
By: Carolina Journal
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North Carolina’s deadline for accepting mail-in absentee ballots in this year’s election finally may be settled at the venue state conservative leaders wanted: the U.S. Supreme Court.
Published: Friday, October 23rd, 2020 @ 8:49 am
By: Carolina Journal
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The election lawsuit merry-go-round keeps turning, as tens of thousands of North Carolinians cast ballots at early voting sites, and legislative leaders urge the State Board of Elections to “stop this chaos.”
Published: Monday, October 19th, 2020 @ 10:53 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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We will offer this allotment of three with more to come; some old, most new, but all quite informative, and, moreover, necessary to understanding that in North Carolina, there is a wiser path to govern ourselves and our People.
Published: Sunday, October 18th, 2020 @ 3:40 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Judge William Osteen Jr. of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina issued two orders on the evening of October 14 in the ongoing dispute.
Published: Saturday, October 17th, 2020 @ 8:18 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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A U.S. District Court judge will not permit N.C. election officials to count absentee ballots that lack a witness signature required by law.
Published: Thursday, October 15th, 2020 @ 10:43 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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