After months of meeting across the state, the House Select Committee on School Safety met for the final time Thursday to approve another round of recommendations to make schools safer. The school safety committee was formed in the wake of the Feb. 14 shooting at…
Election irregularities have been an open secret in Bladen County for most of this decade. A group of Republican senators frustrated with lax enforcement, including law enforcement investigations that seem to be going nowhere, say cleaning up the mess is essential to restore public confidence in election integrity.
Here we are, two years later. We’ve taken many, arduous, often tedious steps. Only to return to where we began, having gone nowhere. In late 2016, as Gov. Roy Cooper was preparing to take office, the General Assembly decided it would change…
The Bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement has begun disclosing evidentiary materials related to its investigation of election fraud in the 9th Congressional District election. The disclosure of records, announced Tuesday, Dec. 4, followed complaints by Republicans about the…
The prospect Democrats will get their wish for a new election in the 9th Congressional District could be getting stronger. A growing body of news reports suggests coordinated election irregularities occurred in Bladen and Robeson counties, challenging last month’s narrow victory by Republican Mark Harris,…
Silent Sam’s proposed new home will not be a shrine, as some critics have labeled it, but a fortress built to fend off physical attack.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the federal criminal justice reform proposal called the First Step Act. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 30, 2018, edition of UNC-TV’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”…
With Vice President Mike Pence casting a tiebreaking vote, Raleigh attorney Thomas Farr’s nomination to become a federal judge in North Carolina now moves forward for a full U.S. Senate confirmation. Without this afternoon’s 51-50 procedural vote, Farr’s nomination would not have been allowed to advance to the Senate floor.
Greg Wallace, professor of law at Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, discusses U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s likely impact. Wallace offered these comments during a presentation Monday to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to take up a case involving plans to restore a citizenship question to the U.S. census. Kokai offered these comments during the Nov. 23, 2018, edition of UNC-TV’s “Front Row with Marc Rotterman.”…
