RALEIGH — In the final days of 2022, Gov. Roy Cooper’s Racial Equity in Criminal Justice task force (TREC) released its 2022 report containing updates on the status of the group’s work. TREC was created […]
RALEIGH — In a contentious opinion featuring barbs from both the majority and dissent, the N.C. Supreme Court on Friday, Aug. 19 overturned a decision by the state appeals court and ordered amendments approved by […]
RALEIGH — The ongoing legal case allowing over 55,000 felons to vote in the November midterm elections will be heard by the North Carolina Supreme Court instead of the state’s Court of Appeals according to an order issued […]
State legislatures across the country are entrenched in their respective redistricting processes, each with their own unique set of laws and legal guidelines. In North Carolina however, an activist court is taking unprecedented action to […]
RALEIGH — During President Joe Biden’s campaign, he pledged to put a black woman on the Supreme Court if he had the chance to make a nomination, and with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer’s announced retirement, […]
This week, the Democrat activists behind North Carolina redistricting lawsuits have reached their intended target – the Democrat majority on the N.C. Supreme Court. This was the Democrats’ plan all along, and the reasons why […]
RALEIGH — Republican leaders of the N.C. General Assembly filed motions on Jan. 6 calling for two state Supreme Court justices, Sam Ervin IV and Anita Earls, to recuse themselves from the court case deciding […]
RALEIGH — Two candidates have announced their intent to run for the U.S. Senate in the Democratic primary, state Sen. Jeff Jackson and former state Sen. Erica Smith. Yet the state’s March 2022 primary is […]
RALEIGH — A state task force created to improve equity in the North Carolina criminal justice system is looking at possible legalization for the possession of certain amounts of marijuana. The N.C Racial Equity Taskforce […]
RALEIGH — Associate Justice Anita Earls of the North Carolina Supreme Court wrote a decision, published June 5 and supported by six out of seven justices, that allowed prisoners on death row who had already […]
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