RALEIGH – Last night, the John Locke Foundation brought home the Bob Williams Award for “Biggest Home State Win” at this year’s State Policy Network Annual Meeting. This coveted award is given to an organization that served as an integral part of securing a significant policy victory in their state. Locke received the award for...
RALEIGH — The “Usurper Four” Democrat majority has gone scorched earth on the state constitution and the will of millions of North Carolina voters. This decision, crafted by notorious progressive idealogue Anita Earls, is designed to appease the Democrats’ far-left activist base – a small but well-funded base that openly rejects the very popular voter ID law and taxpayer protections. These four Justices...
RALEIGH — The John Locke Foundation is standing against the N.C. Senate’s vote Wednesday to expand Medicaid. Expansion is the key element of House Bill 149, slated for a vote on the Senate floor later this afternoon. “For years, most state senators have rightfully recognized that Medicaid expansion is bad medicine for North Carolina,” said Locke Chief...
RALEIGH – The John Locke Foundation has launched a new center to protect and expand freedom in the vital policy areas of agriculture, energy, and the environment. The newly created Center for Food, Power, and Life (CFPL) will focus on enhancing North Carolinians’ lives by improving their access to food, power, and more of life’s...
“It makes zero sense for the N.C. General Assembly to consider expanding Medicaid now. At a time of rising inflation, growing shortages of critical supplies like baby formula, and other signs of increasing economic uncertainty, it would be incredibly risky to saddle taxpayers with a new multibillion-dollar ongoing government obligation. Medicaid supporters claim expansion would...
RALEIGH — Parents have a fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education, and care of their children. Until recently, that truth has been unquestioned. Today, the John Locke Foundation released a Parents’ Bill of Rights calling on lawmakers to reaffirm parental authority and influence throughout North Carolina’s public schools. Locke hopes the new document will...
RALEIGH — For two years, families across the state have been at the mercy of politicians and school boards who have too often shown they’re willing to sacrifice child welfare for the sake of their political agenda. To the parents who continue to fight tirelessly for their children, we see you, we hear you, and...
RALEIGH — As North Carolina reaches the 75th anniversary of its right-to-work law, now is a great time to strengthen the state’s protection against forced labor unionization. A new John Locke Foundation report calls on policymakers to add right-to-work provisions to the N.C. Constitution. “States with right-to-work laws enjoy lower unemployment rates, higher job growth, and higher wage...
Wednesday, March 2, 2022 RALEIGH – Today, the John Locke Foundation’s Civitas Center for Public Integrity released the updated 2022 Civitas Partisan Index(CPI) to reflect the final state legislative district maps. This tool reflects the political balance of power in North Carolina. Modeled after the Cook Partisan Voting Index, the CPI compares the political leanings...
RALEIGH – As part of our commitment to the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, the John Locke Foundation has joined a brief in Bianchi v. Frosh, a critical Second Amendment case in which the plaintiffs are requesting review by the U.S. Supreme Court, formally known as a Petition for Writ of Certiorari. In Bianchi v....
A statement from Amy O. Cooke, CEO of the John Locke Foundation: “Tonight the Democrat justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court lived up to their nickname: “the usurper four.” They sided with the discredited Marc Elias, Eric Holder, and well-funded special-interest groups against North Carolina voters. They willingly violated the sacrosanct principle of separation...
“Marc Elias proves again that he has an exceedingly high tolerance for his own hypocrisy and shame. He called the North Carolina map drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature a “grotesque partisan gerrymander,” “indefensible,” and proof the Republican Party “has lost all shame.” Elias’ law firm, the Elias Law Group, is representing the plaintiffs in Harper v. Hall, one...