The governor's legal team worked actively to undermine a three-judge panel's decision about appointments to the Environmental Management Commission.
A new law allowing University of North Carolina (UNC Health) and East Carolina University (ECU) health systems to create their own retirement plan separate from the state pension plan, in addition to other proposed changes, could possibly lead to its demise.
New and familiar faces attended the January North Carolina Council of State meeting in Raleigh.
A former Lincoln County commissioner appointed to North Carolina’s new eight-member State Board of Elections is trying to intervene in Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuit against the board. Martin Oakes filed a motion Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court to take part in the lawsuit dubbed Cooper v. Berger.
Gov. Roy Cooper and state Attorney General Josh Stein support the plaintiffs seeking a preliminary injunction in federal court against North Carolina’s new state Senate map. Cooper and Stein filed paperwork Tuesday to submit a friend-of-the-court brief in the case.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses Gov. Roy Cooper’s work with national Democrats ahead of the 2024 election season. Kokai offered these comments during the Dec. 1, 2024, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Jessica Holmes, former chair of the Wake County Board of Commissioners, as interim North Carolina State Auditor. Holmes will serve the remainder of outgoing State Auditor Beth Wood’s term, which ends on Dec. 31, 2024.
A three-judge panel will hold a hearing Thursday morning in Raleigh in Gov. Roy Cooper’s challenge of a new state law changing state and county elections board appointments. Superior Court Judges Edwin Wilson, Lori Hamilton, and Andrew Womble are scheduled to oversee the case titled Cooper v. Berger.
Top state legislative leaders are asking a Superior Court panel to dismiss Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuit challenging changes to appointments for selected state boards and commissions. The panel granted Cooper an injunction on Nov. 1 blocking changes for three boards.
North Carolina’s governor and lieutenant governor had anything but a typical Monday as one attended an event marking a major religious holiday in the state while the other traveled across the world near a war zone.
Gov. Roy Cooper’s lawsuit against state elections board changes will shift to a three-judge Superior Court panel. A Wake County judge ordered the shift Wednesday without addressing Cooper’s request for a temporary restraining order. The new board is scheduled to take effect on Jan. 1.
