Unaffiliated voters have dropped their 2022 federal lawsuit challenging a state law that blocks them from serving on the North Carolina State Board of Elections. All parties in the case signed a joint stipulation of dismissal filed Tuesday.
Unaffiliated voters are hitting the pause button on their federal lawsuit challenging the composition of North Carolina’s State Board of Elections. A court filing Friday indicates the suit will not proceed until state courts resolve a separate suit pitting the governor against state legislative leaders.
As Gov. Roy Cooper complains about a legislative plan to revamp the N.C. State Board of Elections, he also has filed a new brief opposing unaffiliated voters’ federal lawsuit challenging the existing board’s makeup.
Unaffiliated voters challenging the partisan makeup of the N.C. State Board of Elections are asking a federal judge to reject the latest request from Gov. Roy Cooper. The governor filed paperwork earlier this month seeking dismissal of the unaffiliated voters’ lawsuit.
An unaffiliated Orange County candidate hopes the N.C. Court of Appeals will overrule a lower court decision that kept him off the ballot in 2022. The legal dispute involves the number of petition signatures necessary to secure ballot access.
Gov. Roy Cooper is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit from unaffiliated voters who want the right to serve on the N.C. State Board of Elections. Cooper, a Democrat, filed a motion to dismiss the case roughly two months after Republican legislative leaders made the same request.
Unaffiliated voters challenging the structure of North Carolina’s state elections board are defending their federal lawsuit. They filed paperwork Friday rejecting state legislative leaders’ request to have the suit dismissed.
Republican N.C. legislative leaders have asked a U.S. District Court to dismiss a lawsuit from unaffiliated voters. Those voters challenge a state law blocking them from serving on the State Board of Elections.
N.C. legislative leaders have submitted their final written arguments against a lawsuit that would give unaffiliated voters a right to sit on the state elections board. Lawmakers are asking U.S. District Judge William Osteen to dismiss the case.
North Carolina’s top legislative leaders believe a federal judge should dismiss a lawsuit that aims to add unaffiliated voters to the state’s elections board. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, filed a motion Friday to dismiss the case Common Cause v. Moore.
Left-of-center activist group Common Cause has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a state law that blocks unaffiliated voters from serving on the N.C. State Board of Elections. The suit, Common Cause v. Moore, asks a federal court to declare the law “unconstitutional and void.” Common Cause also asks the court to block the N.C. General...
