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Justice Earls openly flouting NC Code of Judicial Conduct

Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here: Democrat North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, a well-known liberal activist before and during her time on the bench, appears to be actively ignoring and defying North Carolina’s Code of Judicial Conduct, the state’s ethical rule book for judges and Supreme Court justices.   Woodshed recently...

Dallas Woodhouse
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Three years in, Cooper, Stein, Earls still fighting for soft-on-crime policies

In January of this year, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls spoke glowingly of her work on the state’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Along with Attorney General Josh Stein, Earls is the co-chair of the task force, created in the summer of 2020 by Gov. Roy Cooper.  According to the task...

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Haley’s candidacy can elevate transparency to top issue

As a public policy organization, the John Locke Foundation polls, examines and opines on political races as a means to an end. The end being sound public policy that encourages responsible citizens, strong families, and successful communities committed to individual liberty and limited, constitutional government. No one person nor political party has all the answers...

Dallas Woodhouse
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GOP lays down the law. Dems work the refs

Moments after Cleveland County state Rep. Tim Moore was selected for a historic and record-setting fifth term as speaker, the Kings Mountain Republican made it clear that if North Carolina legislative Democrats and Gov. Roy Cooper want to obstruct the Republican majority, it will be tough sledding. In the Senate, Republicans have exactly the 30...

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Oral arguments done in Moore v. Harper, justices appear to back middle ground

Here are the Woodshed quick takes immediately following the oral arguments. In-depth coverage from Carolina Journal will follow. This post will also be updated. A coalition of Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appears to be coalescing around a middle ground that would find in favor of the North Carolina General Assembly in Moore v....

Dallas Woodhouse
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S.C. founding father at center of U.S. Supreme Court election case

One of South Carolina's early governors – and one of the nation's most controversial founding fathers – is taking center stage in a critical U.S. Supreme Court case this week that could fundamentally alter the control of federal congressional elections.

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In closing hours, NC Democrats evade their own union

The North Carolina Democratic Party is not “asking for the union label” but seeking to avoid its own unionized workers in the final hours of the 2022 campaign, in direct conflict with the state party’s own stated principles. The state Democratic Party appears to be involved in a shell game of running campaign funds through...

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