With the summer holidays finished and kids back in school, the long session of the North Carolina General Assembly is exiting turn four and headed down the back straight to the checkered flag of this monumental and historic legislative session. Over the next week, some major decisions will be made by North Carolina’s leading political...
As a conservative commentator, I rarely find agreement with Democrat NC Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls. However, today I do. The North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission should not be in the business of policing political speech. As reported by Carolina Journal, Earls — the most liberal and outspoken member of the state Supreme Court — has filed...
Legislative Republicans sent a clear signal to the largest group of registered voters in the Tar Heel state, unaffiliated voters, that they are welcome to continue voting in Republican primary contests, now and forever more. Included in a recently passed election bill is a requirement that unaffiliated voters be allowed to vote in a political...
With Congressman Dan Bishop’s (NC-8) announcement that he will retire from Congress to run for North Carolina attorney general, former congressional candidate Mark Harris, a Republican, tells Carolina Journal he is seriously considering making a third try for Congress in the same area, despite the controversial 2018 election that saw Harris’ victory overturned due to...
Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Pamlico, chair of the North Carolina House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, has declared his intent to run for House speaker to succeed Speaker Tim Moore. First elected to the House in 2015, Moore has said he will not run again. Moore set the chamber’s record at five terms as speaker. “We need to...
It has been a little quiet around Raleigh, as legislators finish up a marathon legislative session. Democrats have been beat down in the capital with Republican legislative supermajorities working their policy will over the objections of Democrats, including Gov. Cooper. Yet, Democrats have reasons for hope because of a few recent developments. One of the...
The North Carolina Senate recently passed two important bills that seek improvement in how we elect people and who administrates elections in North Carolina. The Senate has made mostly reasonable adjustments to election procedures that should not overly burden any qualified citizen from voting. Here we separate fact from fiction and add our proposed fixes...
North Carolina Democrats desperately needed a fresh-faced 29-year-old Tricia Cotham to succeed when she was appointed to Mecklenburg Counties House District 100 in 2007. The North Carolina Democratic Party was mired in corruption and scandal. The North Carolina Democrat party WAS the face of corruption and scandal. The North Carolina Democrats were the jailbird caucus. Cotham...
Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here: Democrat North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, a well-known liberal activist before and during her time on the bench, appears to be actively ignoring and defying North Carolina’s Code of Judicial Conduct, the state’s ethical rule book for judges and Supreme Court justices. Woodshed recently...
In January of this year, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls spoke glowingly of her work on the state’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Along with Attorney General Josh Stein, Earls is the co-chair of the task force, created in the summer of 2020 by Gov. Roy Cooper. According to the task...
As a public policy organization, the John Locke Foundation polls, examines and opines on political races as a means to an end. The end being sound public policy that encourages responsible citizens, strong families, and successful communities committed to individual liberty and limited, constitutional government. No one person nor political party has all the answers...
