RALEIGH: Yesterday, Governor Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein filed an amicus brief in federal court that urges the court to address racial discrimination in the State senate map that violates the Voting Rights Act by diluting the power of Black voters.
Published: Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 @ 11:38 am
By: Governor's Office
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Alabama and South Carolina cases could set goalposts for Voting Rights Act compliance
Published: Thursday, February 15th, 2024 @ 8:25 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Three members of North Carolina's congressional delegation voted to grant voting rights to noncitizens
Published: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023 @ 11:31 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Contrary to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s contention, the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act protect the voting rights of people of all races
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2022 @ 12:12 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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How a case of alleged racially motivated gerrymandering could impact future U.S. elections
Published: Thursday, October 20th, 2022 @ 10:21 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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As of July 27, a 1973 N.C. law that laid out a path for felons to regain their voting rights is officially no longer in effect. This change means that around 56,000 felons in the state will now be able to register to vote and could be eligible to participate in the November 2022 midterms.
Published: Saturday, July 30th, 2022 @ 1:43 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Lawyers representing N.C. legislative leaders defend a state law that sets out rules for felons to regain their voting rights.
Published: Friday, July 22nd, 2022 @ 7:19 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Meadow's case highlights the need for North Carolina to join interstate voter data sharing compact
Published: Monday, April 25th, 2022 @ 2:52 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Nominal Republicans Frankie Waters and John Rebholz made an effective stand against Election Integrity, in concert with their fellow Democratic Socialist caucus members, to stop cold this resolution to limit Voter Fraud in North Carolina.
Published: Sunday, March 6th, 2022 @ 8:59 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Beaufort County citizens have a voice in this self-governing conundrum of these States United, and it must not be canceled, or held politically hostage by the false problems promoted by the Democratic Socialists, whose purpose is to destroy this Representative Republic.
Published: Saturday, February 26th, 2022 @ 12:07 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Democratic U.S. candidate Cheri Beasley tweeted Wednesday that if she had been in the Senate, she would have voted in favor of the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
Published: Friday, January 21st, 2022 @ 5:41 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Donna King, Carolina Journal editor-in-chief, discusses a Superior Court ruling that would give voting rights to all N.C. felons who have completed active prison time.
Published: Sunday, January 9th, 2022 @ 5:31 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Carolina Journal by Video - XI: Locke’s Andy Jackson responds to court ruling on felon voting rightsThe Carolina Journal makes a wide sweeping evaluation of the news that most effects us here in North Carolina, and is distilled, here on BCN, for your clear understanding by the electronic means of video broadcast.
Published: Thursday, January 6th, 2022 @ 9:32 am
By: Carolina Journal
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Critical race theory is the idea that the United States is a fundamentally racist country and that all of our institutions including the law, culture, business, the economy are all designed to maintain white supremacy.
Published: Monday, November 29th, 2021 @ 10:21 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Judicial Watch announced today Senior Attorney Russell Nobile will testify in front of the House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties
Published: Thursday, August 26th, 2021 @ 3:25 pm
By: Judicial Watch
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Margot Cleveland of the Federalist explains how the Voting Rights Act plays into the Biden administration’s challenge against Georgia’s new voting law.
Published: Friday, August 6th, 2021 @ 7:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Former President Barack Obama spoke out on Monday to say that he is confidant that the Senate will hold a new vote on the Democratic voting rights bill that Republicans in the upper chamber blocked last week.
Published: Friday, July 2nd, 2021 @ 1:51 am
By: LifeZette
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“I will veto Article 10 of the budget passed by the legislature”
Published: Monday, June 7th, 2021 @ 10:19 am
By: Daily Wire
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Should a convicted felon who has not completed his or her full sentence be allowed to vote? The North Carolina National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) thinks so.
Published: Wednesday, November 27th, 2019 @ 12:42 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Longtime observers of the state's electoral system say some North Carolina judicial districts might be unconstitutional, and ripe for legal challenges
Published: Monday, November 20th, 2017 @ 10:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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Republican legislators have generated criticism for ignoring voters' race when drawing North Carolina's latest congressional and legislative election maps
Published: Thursday, October 19th, 2017 @ 2:00 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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"North Carolina has become ground zero in the redistricting battles about how much and how little race can be used in the redistricting process."
Published: Saturday, June 24th, 2017 @ 1:00 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Attorneys representing liberal and civil-rights organizations in the Covington Voting Rights Act case cite a controversial study claiming North Carolina is no longer a fully functioning democracy as part of their filing with Chief Justice of the U.S. John Roberts to deny the state’s request
Published: Wednesday, January 11th, 2017 @ 9:48 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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If your personal lawyer was taking money under the table from the very person you're facing off with in court, you would fire them immediately for unethical behavior and a serious conflict of interest.
Published: Thursday, March 24th, 2016 @ 9:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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Two House bills intended to reduce partisan manipulation of legislative redistricting could be acted on in the short session starting in April, though retiring Sen. Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg, predicted the Senate would not approve either.
Published: Monday, January 11th, 2016 @ 12:07 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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The federal government's lawsuit against North Carolina election laws could have "extraordinary ramifications for the United States," an election law expert told a Tuesday meeting of the Campbell Law School Federalist Society.
Published: Friday, September 18th, 2015 @ 5:13 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Today, NCGOP Chairman Hasan Harnett released the following statement commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 8:57 am
By: Christopher Maye
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Gov. Pat McCrory's chief legal counsel said Tuesday that the governor, a Republican, decided to hire an outside lawyer to defend a lawsuit over the state's new voter identification and election law because of public statements about the law from Democratic state Attorney General Roy Cooper.
Published: Sunday, October 27th, 2013 @ 12:11 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Advocates for reform of the way North Carolina draws its congressional and legislative election maps are taking their arguments to audiences across North Carolina. Redistricting reformers have conducted public meetings recently in Greensboro, Fayetteville, and Charlotte, with other events...
Published: Sunday, October 20th, 2013 @ 11:50 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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No, I'm not speculating about the president's strategies for implementing his health care law or besting Congressional Republicans in budget battles. Today's topic is closer to home: the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to file a lawsuit alleging that North Carolina's new election law...
Published: Friday, October 4th, 2013 @ 12:36 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday struck back at the federal government, saying the U.S. Department of Justice was "working in the fringes." McCrory, a Republican, said the state would defend the lawsuit filed by the Democratic administration of President Barack Obama against the state's new election...
Published: Thursday, October 3rd, 2013 @ 3:17 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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It is telling that when Washington decides to attack North Carolina's new voting reforms, the nation's top legal authority paints a misleading picture of those laws.
Published: Wednesday, October 2nd, 2013 @ 12:07 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Eric Holder says it; Colin Powell says it: every NAACP "preacher" in the country says it: every Dem in the countryside says it.
Published: Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013 @ 6:55 am
By: Jim Bispo
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