When historians and political scientists discuss the powers and authority of each state’s various branches, the consensus has been that North Carolina’s governor is among the weakest. However, this long-held…
A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has dismissed a Greenville woman’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state’s red-light camera law. The judges agreed they could…
A three-judge N.C. Superior Court panel’s ruling Tuesday, Aug. 3, in Common Cause v. Lewis will force the N.C. General Assembly to redraw state House and Senate election maps. The…
Opening testimony for Common Cause v. Lewis began this week, according to an article by Kari Travis in Carolina Journal. Travis describes Common Cause v. Lewis as a: partisan redistricting…
A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has ruled this morning that a challenge of the constitutionality of North Carolina’s eugenics compensation program should head to a…
One day after a Superior Court judge agreed not to block the first distribution of opportunity scholarships — or school vouchers — in North Carolina, one of the scholarship program’s…
In baseball, the tie goes to the runner. In an N.C. Supreme Court ruling, a tie means that you revert back to a previous ruling. With one justice not participating…
The NC Superior Court refused to hear the City of Asheville’s appeal of an August ruling against the city’s claim that the Sullivan acts are unconstitutional. The city is suing…
Today’s Carolina Journal Online exclusive features Don Carrington’s report about potential ethical conflicts involving UNC president Erskine Bowles and the review of N.C. First Lady Mary Easley’s 88 percent pay…
Via Crime in Charlotte comes news that Holly Mitchell has been arrested again! Recall that just a month ago we noted here that Mitchell had been set loose by Superior…
From AP: Gov. Mike Easley and others violated the constitution in 2001 by intercepting $225 million headed for state pension funds to help cover a budget shortfall, a Superior Court…
N.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood has thrown out the $200,000 fine levied against the national Republican Governors’ Association. That fine was connected to political advertising in the 2004 gubernatorial…