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Media privilege case that prompted state Supreme Court war of words officially ends

A lawsuit over the media’s “fair report privilege” that prompted a war of words among state Supreme Court justices last year has officially ended. The plaintiff filed a notice of voluntary dismissal Thursday in Wake County Superior Court.

CJ Staff
News

NC Democrat seeks to empower NCSBE with removing presidential candidates from ballot

In a statement on X Thursday (formerly Twitter) Sen. Jay Chaudhuri, D-Wake, announced that he intends to file legislation that would empower the North Carolina State Board of Elections with the authority to remove a presidential candidate from voter ballots under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

CJ Staff
Opinion

NC paralegals fight for your right to give advice

Courts have an access problem. Many civil procedures are too complex to navigate alone, yet many people cannot afford an attorney. The North Carolina Justice for All Project wants to help. The idea is simple. The organization’s members, all state-certified paralegals, want to host free clinics for people who need assistance filling out court-created forms...

Paul Sherman, Daryl James

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Opinion

NC media panel: Internet obliterated traditional news business. Now what?

Over the weekend, I was privileged to be in attendance at the John Locke Foundation’s Carolina Liberty Conference. Among the highlights of the weekend (which included recording an episode of our weekly show “The Debrief” in the hotel lobby) was a media panel, hosted by Carolina Journal editor-in-chief Donna King, discussing the current state of...

David Larson
News

COVID protester defends federal lawsuit against multiple motions to dismiss

A High Point woman used court filings this week to defend her federal lawsuit challenging her arrest during a 2020 protest of Gov. Roy Cooper’s COVID-related shutdown orders. Monica Ussery's lawyers filed three separate documents Wednesday in US District Court. Ussery responded to multiple motions to dismiss her case.

CJ Staff
News

Moore, Berger join SCOTUS court filing to keep Trump on ballot

State House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, joined an amicus brief Thursday filed at the US Supreme Court. Moore, Berger, the Arizona legislature, and attorneys general for 25 other states aim to keep Donald Trump on the presidential election ballot.

Katherine Zehnder
Opinion

Access Denied

President Joe Biden visited North Carolina Thursday to tout the success of “Bidenomics,” as evidenced by all the good things happening economically in this state. Naturally, Carolina Journal intended to cover the president’s remarks. Unfortunately, our reporter was denied entry. Why? Event staff gave an explanation that the president’s visit to Abbots Creek Community Center...

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