Three days after its ruling in North Carolina’s Moore v. Harper redistricting case, the U,S. Supreme Court has ordered Ohio’s top court to apply that ruling to a Buckeye State battle over a congressional election map.
As the parties in a federal lawsuit over North Carolina’s new abortion law await a ruling today from U.S. District Court, defendants and state legislative leaders have filed a new document addressing two of the law’s points of contention.
In a 6-3 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the use of race in admissions policies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Harvard University.
The Syrian government would be forced to pay more than $1.1 billion to victims of ISIS terrorist attacks from 2015 to 2017, under an order issued Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Raleigh. Among the beneficiaries would be former U.S. Ambassador Jim Cain, his wife, and his daughter.
The opening of a facility in Greensboro proposed to house 800 unaccompanied migrant children from the southern border appears imminent, possibly as soon as August.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in the Moore v. Harper redistricting case from North Carolina. Kokai offered these comments during a June 27, 2023, interview with One America News Network.
An election reform bill moving through the N.C. General Assembly could have a major impact on a federal lawsuit dealing with felon voting. In a court filing Monday, lawyers representing defendants in the case asked for more time to respond to the plaintiffs’ recent motion for summary judgment. The defendants cited the potential effect of Senate Bill 747.
Republican legislative leaders and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein put forward contrasting arguments Tuesday, as they prepared for a federal court hearing in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new abortion law. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles will conduct the hearing Wednesday morning in Greensboro.
On Tuesday, North Carolina state politicians and analysts reacted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the high-profile Moore v. Harper case, with Democratic lawmakers celebrating the decision while plaintiff and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, said he is glad the case is “settled.”
North Carolina is set to receive over $1.53 billion in federal funding to help with expanding high-speed internet across the state. The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) made the announcement Monday.
The U.S. Supreme Court has voted 6-3 to affirm the N.C. Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling against a congressional map drawn by a Republican-led legislature. Tuesday’s decision in Moore v. Harper could have little practical impact, since the state’s highest court overturned its 2022 ruling in April.
