It goes without saying that North Carolina’s 16 electoral votes for president will, as usual, be heavily contested next year by the two major-party nominees, who are presumed to be Democrat Joe Biden and Republican Donald Trump. I’m not yet ready to accept that presumption, by the way. I think it’s possible, for example, that...
Former North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Mike Morgan officially launched his first campaign video Wednesday in his run for the Democratic party nomination for governor in the 2024 primary election.
In the latest Civitas Poll, 49% of North Carolinians likely to vote in the Republican primary say they’d pick Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson to be the GOP nominee for governor in 2024. Of the remaining voters, 41% are undecided and the rest support other candidates such as State Treasurer Dale Folwell or former congressman Mark...
The nation’s highest court will consider Tuesday a pair of petitions related to a legal dispute surrounding North Carolina’s “ag-gag law.” Both state Attorney General Josh Stein and the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation have asked the court to take the case in its upcoming term.
Gov. Roy Cooper offered his official endorsement Wednesday morning to fellow Democrat Josh Stein in North Carolina’s 2024 governor’s race. Stein succeeded Cooper in 2017 as the state’s attorney general.
State legislative leaders’ latest court filing in a legal battle over abortion pill restrictions cites the “major questions doctrine.” That’s a principle in federal legal arguments that Congress does not delegate issues of major political or economic significance to administrative agencies.
The Democratic attorney general's defense of a new state law marks a rare case of unity with Republican legislative leaders.
Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the latest campaign finance numbers in North Carolina’s 2024 gubernatorial race. Kokai offered these comments during the Aug. 4, 2023, edition of PBS North Carolina’s “State Lines.”
This week on “The Debrief”: * After weeks of apparent inaction, it looks as if the North Carolina General Assembly is close to a final deal on a state budget. * The NC FreeEnterprise Foundation calculates the rising costs of waging election campaigns in North Carolina. *When news broke that Attorney General Josh Stein’s campaign...
NC Attorney General Josh Stein officially supported this week Planned Parenthood’s effort to block two pieces of the state’s new abortion law. In documents filed Monday, Stein signed onto the abortion group’s request for a preliminary injunction.
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.
