State Attorney General Josh Stein and Republican state legislative leaders offered a federal judge opposing arguments this week in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s abortion pill restrictions. US District Judge Catherine Eagles asked parties in the case, Bryant v. Stein, to submit briefs Monday. Eagles will render a decision in the case without holding a trial.
Gov. Roy Cooper and state Attorney General Josh Stein hope to sway a federal Appeals Court to rule against Republican state legislators in a battle over North Carolina’s new state Senate election map. Cooper and Stein, both Democrats, filed a brief Monday evening with the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. Legislative leaders and plaintiffs challenging the Senate map filed their own briefs several hours later.
As the Biden administration and US Senate leadership push for passage of a border deal drawing heavy criticism from conservatives, both US senators from North Carolina have indicated they will vote 'No' on the legislation.
Election integrity has taken on more importance since the 2020 election, both across the U.S. and in North Carolina. The subject was discussed at the recently held John Locke Foundation’s Carolina Liberty Conference.
US District Judge James Dever argues that plaintiffs fall short of the high standard needed to justify the "odious" sorting of voters by race.
The United States’ national debt is above $34 trillion, but leaders in Washington do not notice. Instead, they’re focused on more important things, like the national security threat of foreign garlic or maintaining funding for a United Nations aid organization, some of whose workers may have been involved with the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7. Sadly,...
72 Republicans in the North Carolina House sent a letter to Gov. Cooper on Wednesday urging him to stand in solidarity with Texas.
The State Board of Elections filed paperwork Tuesday supporting the dismissal of two federal election-related lawsuits. One focuses on voting rights for felons. The other targets North Carolina’s latest election reform law.
The State Board of Elections has addressed a federal judge’s concerns about a new state law changing the process for checking addresses tied to same-day voter registration. The board’s lawyers filed paperwork Tuesday in three federal court cases explaining its latest actions.
A federal Appeals Court will expedite its consideration of a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new state Senate election map. Appellate judges issued an order Monday granting the plaintiffs’ request for a speedy review.
Plaintiffs challenging North Carolina’s new state Senate election map are trying again to secure an expedited ruling in their case. They have asked a federal Appeals Court to issue a decision by Feb. 15.
