UPDATE: This story was updated 6:52 p.m. Wednesday, February 7, with additional comment from Gannon. With the exception of Wake and Mecklenburg counties, candidates for most offices in North Carolina — legislative and congressional — will file during the upcoming filing period, without changes, says State Board of Elections spokesman Patrick Gannon. A three-paragraph order...
Court intervention in congressional redistricting has some lawmakers wondering whether judges are gaveling their way into legislative territory. On Jan. 9, a panel of three federal judges blocked North Carolina from using its current map during congressional elections. The map, GOP redistricting leaders admitted, was designed to give Republicans an advantage in 10 out of...
The power struggle between the Republican-led General Assembly and Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper resumed Monday in two cases argued in state Supreme Court. In Cooper v. Berger, the governor said the General Assembly violated separation of powers when it merged the State Board of Elections and the state Ethics Commission and, with the move, stripped...
