A federal judge has rejected left-of-center groups’ challenge of a North Carolina law linked to same-day voter registration rules.
A federal judge has rejected requests from North Carolina’s legislative leaders and the State Board of Elections to dismiss a lawsuit targeting changes to state same-day voter registration rules. US District Judge Thomas Schroeder plans to “determine a trial date” during a hearing Tuesday in Winston-Salem.
The Democratic National Committee, North Carolina NAACP, and League of Women Voters of North Carolina all hope to intervene in the US Justice Department’s lawsuit against the state elections board. The suit accuses the elections board of maintaining inaccurate voter rolls in violation of federal law.
The two candidates in North Carolina’s unresolved state Supreme Court race, the state elections board, and other interested parties in an ongoing legal dispute all faced a Monday deadline to submit opening briefs before a federal trial judge hearing the case. US Chief District Judge Richard Myers could decide whether to block a state court process that would settle the election conducted five months ago.
The League of Women Voters of North Carolina filed a federal class-action lawsuit Monday morning aiming to protect military and overseas votes cast in last fall’s state Supreme Court election. Some of those votes could be dropped from the final tally under a court order issued Friday.
The General Assembly kicked off a month-long series of 13 public redistricting hearings in Caldwell County last week with two more scheduled for Tuesday, September 14 in Forsyth County and Pasquotank County. Rep. Destin Hall, R-Caldwell, who is chairman of the N.C. House Redistricting Committee, welcomed the crowd to the first hearing at Caldwell Community...
A three-judge Superior Court panel agreed with the NAACP and other plaintiffs that the General Assembly violated the state constitution’s prohibition on changing legislative district boundaries in the middle of a decade. In a ruling in NAACP v. Lewis released Friday, Nov. 2, the panel directed the General Assembly to fix the impermissible defects in...
A three-member panel of Superior Court judges didn’t issue a decision after hearing testimony Friday in a state legislative redistricting challenge. But the judges won’t wait long. Wake County Judge Paul Ridgeway said the panel would review arguments and documents from opposing lawyers. He said the opinion would be released as quickly as possible. The...
HILLSBOROUGH — Though a League of Women Voters presentation on the Affordable Care Act on Monday sounded more like talking points from the Obama administration than a current assessment of the national healthcare law’s impacts and flaws, some uninsured people in attendance said the session was informative.
HILLSBOROUGH — An announcement for the session says it will provide "unbiased" information. But the website of the local League of Women Voters unit sponsoring the event states: "The League is opposed to a strictly private, market-based model of financing the health care system. The League also is opposed to the administration of the health care system solely by the private sector or the states."
