As N.C. officials prepare to implement a new photo voter identification requirement for this year’s municipal elections, a federal lawsuit challenging the state voter ID law has seen its first new development since last summer. Plaintiffs challenging the law have a new “counsel of record” in the federal case. She filed paperwork Thursday in U.S. District Court.
The U.S. Supreme Court could rule soon against the use of race in admissions policies at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. If so, it’s unlikely to mean an end to the use of race in college admissions. That’s the key point in a new Manhattan Institute report, “After Affirmative Action, Meritocracy?” Author Robert VerBruggen, a Manhattan Institute fellow, discusses his work.
The North Carolina Department of Commerce announced Tuesday the launch of two new initiatives and web pages that will help companies in the state potentially receive federal designation as Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hub) and for other federal investments enacted as part of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022.
A Brunswick County charter school operator defending its dress code in a federal lawsuit is rebutting recent arguments from the U.S. solicitor general’s office. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar urged the U.S. Supreme Court in May to reject the case titled Charter Day School v. Peltier.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) recently announced it will enact an emergency exception to the Coastal Barriers Resource Act The exception will allow USACE to use the Masonboro Inlet location for renourishing Wrightsville beach, work that is scheduled to begin in November. With hurricane season officially started June 1 and running through November...
Former North Carolina Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen is reportedly slated to become the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ordered a new prison sentence for a felon convicted of scamming the federal government out of $143,000 in COVID-19 relief funds. Appellate judges agreed that the trial judge in Byron Jones’ case made an error in setting the conditions for his eventual release from prison.
Republican Congressman Dan Bishop was in the spotlight yesterday not only for his opposition to the debt ceiling agreement reached by Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and President Joe Biden but also for McCarthy remaining in his position.
Unaffiliated voters challenging the partisan makeup of the N.C. State Board of Elections are asking a federal judge to reject the latest request from Gov. Roy Cooper. The governor filed paperwork earlier this month seeking dismissal of the unaffiliated voters’ lawsuit.
The U.S. Supreme Court will review two cases next month with N.C. ties. Either case could return the Tar Heel State to national headlines when the nation’s highest court starts its next term in the fall. Justices have set June 15 as the date to consider whether to take up Quad Graphics v. N.C. Department of Revenue and Diaz-Tomas v. North Carolina.
A former top N.C. political donor will likely face a federal retrial on bribery charges before he heads to court in a separate case dealing with his insurance businesses. Greg Lindberg is scheduled to go to trial in July in connection with a 13-count federal indictment. Charges include wire fraud, money-laundering conspiracy, and false entries about insurance business finances. But Lindberg’s lawyers filed a motion Friday to delay the trial until no earlier than February 2024.
