The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up cases from North Carolina dealing with drunk-driving prosecutions and an out-of-state sales tax dispute. The court issued orders Tuesday morning denying requests to hear the cases next fall.
Federal appellate judges have chastised the District Court judge overseeing a voter ID lawsuit for "abuse" of her discretion.
Critics of North Carolina’s felon voting restrictions are turning their attention back to federal court, less than two months after the N.C. Supreme Court rejected a challenge of the state’s felon voting law.
Planned Parenthood and a Duke Health doctor filed a federal lawsuit Friday to block North Carolina’s new abortion law. State lawmakers voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto to approve the law in May.
President Joe Biden officially announced Friday the appointment of former North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
On Wednesday, Sen. Natalie Murdock, D-Durham, was among state legislators in attendance at a White House gathering ahead of the one year anniversary of the Dobbs decision. However, Murdock and her fellow lawmakers were not celebrating the decision. Rather, they were there to discuss their own states’ “hostile” abortion policies, according to a press release...
As Gov. Roy Cooper complains about a legislative plan to revamp the N.C. State Board of Elections, he also has filed a new brief opposing unaffiliated voters’ federal lawsuit challenging the existing board’s makeup.
Six Republican senators, including Sen. Ted Budd, NC, and twenty-two Republican House members, including Congressman Dan Bishop, NC-8, have sent a letter to President Joe Biden opposing Dr. Mandy Cohen, his pick to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A federal judge has agreed to delay one trial for former N.C. political donor Greg Lindberg until after his retrial on separate bribery and fraud charges. Lindberg’s retrial is scheduled for November.
On Tuesday, Fred Von Canon officially announced his candidacy for North Carolina’s 1st Congressional District. Von Canon will likely be one of several Republicans vying for the opportunity to run against incumbent Congressman Don Davis, a Democrat. NC-1 is based in the northeastern part of the state and is composed of 19 North Carolina counties,...
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden paid a visit to Fort Liberty, the former Fort Bragg, Friday afternoon to announce and sign an executive order that will boost job opportunities for military and veteran spouses and whose jobs are sometimes disrupted by their partners’ deployments.
