Sen. Bob Rucho

December 15, 2025

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Fourth extra session legislation empowers legislature, reforms boards of elections

December 16, 2016 admin

RALEIGH — Lawmakers opened a fourth extra session of 2016 immediately after adjourning the third on Wednesday, passing several bills that reassert the legislature’s constitutional role in confirming cabinet appointments and selecting board and commission […]

Judges order lawmakers to redraw district maps and hold 2017 elections

November 30, 2016 admin

RALEIGH — On Tuesday a federal court ordered the N.C. General Assembly to re-draw its state district maps by March to replace ones ruled unconstitutional and a product of racial gerrymandering by the same three-judge […]