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North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls Should Recuse Herself from the Leandro Case

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Progressives Lost Bigtime Last Week. What Does That Mean For the Leftist Agenda?

Teacher union-aligned Democrat Terry McAuliffe lost his bid to be governor of Virginia. Democrat Phil Murphy came within a few thousand votes of losing the governor’s seat in blue, blue…

New Carolina Journal Online Features

Carolina Journal Online reports on a court case that could increase a nurse’s legal liability when a patient suffers injuries. A new CJ Opinion explores an important case in the…

“Low pay, other factors to blame as NC police departments struggle to fill vacancies”

That’s the title of a recent Fox 8 report. Among other distressing statistics, the report states that “In Raleigh, 102 of 800 police office officer positions are vacant” and “Sometimes Durham…

New Carolina Journal Online Features

Carolina Journal Online reports on a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s new congressional map. John Hood’s CJ Opinion warns about a myth involving voter turnout.

Before They Vote to Involuntarily Disqualify Two of Their Fellow Justices, the Members of the North Carolina Supreme Court Should Read this Old Memo by Justice Scalia

In 2004, Justice Scalia refused to recuse himself from CHENEY v. UNITED STATES DIST. COURT FOR D. C. In the memorandum explaining his decision, Scalia provides a helpful explanation of why…

Health Care

John Locke Foundation Files Brief in a Case Challenging North Carolina’s Certificate-of-Need Law

Under North Carolina law, health care providers who wish to open or expand facilities, buy various kinds of new equipment, or in some cases simply treat more patients, must first…

Ploy To Disenfranchise Millions of N.C. Voters Should Be Dismissed

November 4, 2021 RALEIGH – North Carolina’s leading voices for constitutional government, election integrity, and the rule of law have filed an amicus brief in NAACP v. Moore, urging the…

C.S. Lewis’ prescient warning for our times

Statists peddling mandates as freedom would give the subservient a day pass “to be human again,” call it “freedom,” and denigrate actual freedom should anyone remember the normal normal. C.S.…

Budget, Taxation & Economy

Infamous Dred Scott Ruling Could Have Implications in Gun Case

David Kopel writes for the Federalist about an important element of the U.S. Supreme Court’s latest gun case. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in New York…

The NC Threat-Free Index and Immunity Update for the Week Ending November 1

This past week about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and about eight out of nine (88.7%) adult North Carolinians are estimated…

IN BOX: Speaker Tim Moore Responds To Cooper’s Veto of Emergency Powers Bill

Late Monday, Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed House Bill 264, which “would have required that the governor receive concurrence from the 10-member elected Council of State for an emergency declaration of more…