Josh Stein picks government interests over free speech
Josh Stein has a track record of struggling to side with the First Amendment.
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Legal experts: Stein misled the public on ‘bullying’ case brief
What is the role of schools disciplining students for speech off-campus?…
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Appeals court decision may end ‘slush funds’ for governor, executive branch
The N.C. attorney general can’t keep and distribute money from a settlement over hog waste that leaked and overflowed from lagoons. A split 2-1 panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals, in an opinion issued Tuesday, Dec. 15, ruled money resulting from a settlement between Smithfield Foods and the N.C.
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Republican Council of State majority will make policy impacts
Republicans can take a breath, even if their signature red is mixed with myriad shades of blue. They keep control of the N.C. Council of State, 6-4, albeit with narrow margins in all the races. The results remain unofficial. Elections officials are dealing with 41,000 provisional…
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Prudence needed on voter ID
Most North Carolinians believe voter ID is a reasonable precaution against a low-probability but catastrophic event. It would be prudent for politicians and judges to accept that and move on.
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No report can resolve funding debate
On the questions of how much to fund and how to deliver public education, there is no research consensus broad enough to convert into a legal mandate. There never will be.
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State voters still closely split
Few state electorates are closer to the national average in partisanship and ideology than North Carolina’s electorate is.
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Legal scuffle involving Stein, NCGA heads to divided SCOTUS
Who represents the people of North Carolina: the governor or the General Assembly? The eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court may decide that on March 31, when they meet in a conference to consider motions in the lawsuit challenging the state’s 2013 election…
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NCGOP: U.S. actions in Texas lawsuit could aid N.C. voter ID case
RALEIGH – North Carolina Republicans are hopeful that a move by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Texas voter ID lawsuit will help the state’s chances to prevail before the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, Sessions withdrew partially from a lawsuit challenging a 2011 Texas law requiring voters to…
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Cooper, Stein move to drop appeal of ruling in voter ID case
RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper and Attorney General Josh Stein, both Democrats, said Tuesday they’ve abandoned the state’s appeal of a court ruling that overturned North Carolina’s voter ID law. GOP leaders called the act a “politically motivated stunt.” Cooper’s office sent a letter discharging outside counsel hired to appeal…