The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on May 9 in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s crime against felons voting in state elections. A federal trial judge struck down the crime in April 2024.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections and elected district attorneys across the state are urging a federal Appeals Court to reverse a ruling throwing out the state’s crime for felon voting. A federal judge issued a decision in April supporting plaintiffs challenging the law.
Wake County’s district attorney would not charge a Libertarian voter with a crime for taking a “ballot selfie” at the polls this fall, according to a federal court filing this week. DA Lorrin Freeman offered that pledge as she and state and local election officials filed paperwork objecting to Susan Hogarth’s request for an injunction blocking the state’s ban on ballot selfies. A hearing is scheduled Oct. 7.
NC Attorney General Josh Stein and three local district attorneys urge a federal court to reject a request to block North Carolina’s new anti-riot law. The American Civil Liberties Union is pursuing a preliminary injunction against the law.
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein and three district attorneys have filed separate motions to dismiss the American Civil Liberties Union’s federal lawsuit against the state’s updated anti-riot law. Those motions reached U.S. District Court on Thursday, two weeks after the ACLU amended its suit.
The American Civil Liberties Union is seeking an injunction against North Carolina’s new anti-riot law. ACLU is also asking a federal judge to rule that every local district attorney will be treated as a defendant in the case.
Nearly two months after Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman won re-election to her job, a federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging her candidacy in the 2022 election. A Republican attorney had sought to have Freeman removed from the election ballot.
A Democrat, Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman is being targeted by groups in the progressive wing of her party who want to institute some of the liberal criminal justice reform policies that have plagued cities across the country.
A pair of orders from the N.C. Supreme Court Monday officially rejected requests from the state’s sheriffs, district attorneys, and Superior Court clerks to reopen candidate filing as soon as possible. Groups representing those three sets of elected officials went to court on Dec. 29. That was three weeks after the Supreme Court had shut...
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