Republicans within the N.C. Senate have elected Kathy Harrington unanimously to serve as their majority leader. She’s the first woman to hold the job. “It’s such an honor to have earned the faith and trust of my colleagues for this leadership position,” Harrington, R-Gaston, said in a news release. “North…
From the end of the Civil War through much of the 20th century, North Carolina effectively was a one-party state: Democratic. Democrats held control of the executive branch from 1901-1973. Republican Jim Holshouser interrupted the Democratic streak for four years and then the other Jims, Democrat Hunt and Republican Martin,…
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A federal judge noted his “serious concerns” about the N.C. state elections board in an order issued Friday, Oct. 30. But the judge denied legislative leaders’ request to take action against the board. The new 19-page order represents U.S. District Judge William Osteen’s latest pronouncement about rules governing N.C.
Each week, staff at Carolina Journal looks back at the week in N.C. politics and chooses several interesting, relevant stories you may have missed. Fearful electorate: A majority of respondents to the latest Elon University Poll are…
Elections officials in North Carolina will count absentee ballots mailed in by Nov. 12, nine days after Election Day. The U.S. Supreme Court, by a 5-3 vote, refused Republican legislative leaders’ request to enforce a state law setting the ballot deadline at Nov. 6. Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice…
While awaiting U.S. Supreme Court action on two other N.C. election cases, state legislative leaders now have asked the nation’s highest court to block a controversial state court election settlement. That Oct. 2 settlement led to the two federal lawsuits already sitting in front of U.S. Chief Justice John…
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide soon whether N.C. election officials count absentee ballots received by mail between Nov. 7 and Nov. 12. Two sets of plaintiffs filed paperwork Sunday, Oct. 25, arguing for the high court to block those ballots from being counted. The plaintiffs are seeking an emergency…
A Houston-based group that focuses on election integrity is throwing its support to N.C. legislators in a dispute before the U.S. Supreme Court. True the Vote filed paperwork Friday to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in Wise v. Circosta, one of two cases submitted by emergency appeal to U.S.
Lawyers on both sides of North Carolina’s absentee-ballot legal dispute could spend much of their weekend working. Filings in the case are due to U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts by 3 p.m. Saturday. In a pair of similar cases, Republican state legislative leaders, President Trump’s re-election campaign, the Republican National…
