Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, speaks in favor of House Bill 44. It would ask voters to repeal a literacy test in the N.C. Constitution. Jackson offered these comments during the March 1, 2023, meeting of the House Judiciary 2 Committee.
Beth Wood’s hit-and-run accident on Dec. 8 and her subsequent actions have blemished an exemplary public service career and diminished her ability to perform the work the people of North Carolina elected her to do. Wood has earned broad praise for her work as state auditor. She has worked aggressively to expose waste, corruption, and...
The United State Supreme Court heard oral arguments of Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina (SFFA v. UNC) on October 31. The case allows the high court to correct a historical wrong and end racial preferences in college admissions. The plaintiffs, SFFA, asked in their hearing request for the high court to reverse its 2003 ruling...
The North Carolina Supreme Court met in the Historic 1767 Chowan Count Courthouse in Edenton on October 3 and 4. The beauty of the setting belied the ugly politics behind two of the cases the court heard on those days. The court had decided on a 4-3 party-line vote on July 28 to truncate the normal judicial process in Harper v. Hall, a...
Legislators attempted to remove the literacy test from the constitution, but voters rejected its removal in 1970.
On Monday, I came across something in the Raleigh News & Observer that read like a letter to the editor from the angry uncle you try to avoid talking with at family reunions. But then I realized it was just Gene Nichol. Nichol, a law professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, was irate about last week’s U.S....
Even if you believe that all is well with voting machines in North Carolina and how the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) handles election data, our election systems are only as secure as the people running them allow them to be. That is why election observers and other volunteers are vital to ensuring...
I envy the folks in the 1st Congressional District. Living as I do in the 2nd District in Wake County, I am represented by a well-entrenched incumbent Democrat. But it does not matter that she is an incumbent. The district is so heavily tilted towards the Democrats that a Republican can’t win here. That is not...
Perhaps it was inevitable. With the announced retirement of reliably progressive but staid 4th District U.S. Rep. David Price, the race to replace him has degenerated into a madcap scramble to the extreme left. Most of the 4th District is in the western Research Triangle region. The bulk of its population is in Durham and...
Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the John Locke Foundation’s Civitas Center for Public Integrity, explains the Civitas Partisan Index. Jackson offered these comments during the March 2, 2022, edition of Spectrum News 1’s “Capital Tonight.”
The special masters’ congressional map protects Democrats from a coming red wave.
Dr. Andy Jackson, director of the Civitas Center for Public Integrity at the John Locke Foundation, discusses dilemmas mapmakers must resolve in North Carolina’s election redistricting process. Learn more here: “Redistricting dilemmas: If you ain’t packing Asheville, you’re cracking Asheville.”