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Federal Appeals Court skeptical of state’s arguments in NC felon voting case

A three-judge federal Appeals Court panel questioned Friday why North Carolina state government lawyers challenged a lower court’s injunction in a case dealing with felon voting. The April 2024 injunction blocked state prosecutors from enforcing a law that created a Class I felony for convicted felons who vote in North Carolina elections without having their rights restored.

CJ Staff

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AG’s office defends hog ‘slush fund’ in NC Appeals Court brief

The North Carolina attorney general’s office is defending its 25-year-old multimillion-dollar environmental grant program funded by Smithfield Foods. A Wake County judge ruled last year that $12 million from the fund should head to public schools.

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Opinion

State regulation of ‘tidal ditches’ unjustly limits coastal land owners

In claiming this newfound jurisdiction, NCDCM was, with just a mere interpretation, rendering hundreds and possibly thousands of previously unregulated and otherwise perfectly beneficial acres of land, useless to any activity outside of agriculture and forestry.

Nelson Paul