Lawyers for N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and two other plaintiffs plan to appeal this week’s ruling against them in U.S. District Court. They want federal courts to throw out a 1931 state criminal law against campaign lies. The one-sentence notice of appeal arrived Wednesday in the federal court.
People connected to Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Cheri Beasley are complaining to the national press that Democrat allies are not stepping up to the plate and spending outside money to lift her candidacy. But is Beasley playing possum? According to Dictionary.com, to play possum is to: To pretend to be dead, a trick used by...
Democratic groups attempting to block the N.C. Green Party from the state’s election ballot “do not appear in this court with clean hands.” That’s the assessment of U.S. District Judge James Dever. He issued an order Wednesday denying Democrats’ request that he block — or stay — his own Aug. 5 ruling placing Green Party candidates on the general election ballot.
The N.C. Green Party accuses Democrats of trying “to sow confusion just long enough” to keep Greens off North Carolina’s general election ballot. The accusation is part of a new court filing with the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The Green Party responded Wednesday to an emergency motion from the N.C. Democratic Party and...