Judge Catherine Eagles ignored the partisan playbook when issuing her final decision in a lawsuit targeting North Carolina's abortion restrictions.
RALEIGH — Reporting about U.S. Supreme Court debates often revolves around disagreements between liberal and conservative voting blocs. But Damon Root, senior editor at Reason magazine and Reason.com, says most debates actually involve competing concepts of judicial activism and judicial restraint. Root has written a book on the topic titled Overruled: The Long War for Control of the U.S. Supreme Court. He discussed his work with Mitch Kokai for Carolina Journal Radio.
What happens when judicial candidates lack sufficient resources to communicate with millions of North Carolina voters?
CHARLOTTE — The N.C. Constitution requires that fines and penalties collected by the state for violations of penal law go to help fund public schools. Does this provision also apply to various sorts of payments to state agencies made as excise taxes, tax penalties or additional taxes, traffic, parking, vehicle registration, and library fines, late fees, civil penalties, or simply penalties? The answer, according to a three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals, is “sometimes.” Six school systems and a statewide association of school boards had sought judicial relief in the case.
