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Lawmakers appeal judge’s ruling striking down abortion pill restrictions

State legislative leaders are appealing a federal judge’s recent ruling striking down part of a North Carolina law restricting access to the abortion pill mifespristone. Lawmakers filed their notice of appeal Thursday, one week after the US Supreme Court rejected a separate challenge to the drug from abortion opponents working with the Alliance Defending Freedom.

CJ Staff
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Locke, NC Chamber, Farm Bureau urge top NC court to revisit administrative deference

The John Locke Foundation, NC Chamber, and NC Farm Bureau all hope the North Carolina Supreme Court will choose to reform the way state courts address the legal issue of “administrative deference.” The groups filed separate friend-of-the-court briefs Wednesday in a case challenging the dismissal of Winston-Salem State University professor Alvin Mitchell.

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Opinion

Why I’m suing the NC Department of Public Instruction 

Teachers are fired nearly every day in America, for all kinds of reasons. None should include a teacher’s doing exactly what he was hired to do and had done without complaint several times before.  That, however, was my experience in losing my job of eight years teaching at the North Carolina Governor’s School, a residential...

David Phillips
News

Planned Parenthood and its allies abandon court battle over NC abortion laws

On Friday, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic and other allied abortion advocates dropped their challenges to five different North Carolina laws pertaining to abortions. N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, and Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Eden, had filed motions to dismiss the challenge to these laws on Jan. 6, 2021. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic dropped their...

Alex Baltzegar
Opinion

Dan Bishop wins Twitter with thread on Omnibus spending, and other outrageous stories

For the featured “outrageous story” of the week, we direct our attention to the crazy spending being proposed in the Senate’s omnibus spending bill, specifically, we look at N.C. Republican Congressman Dan Bishop’s viral thread drawing the public’s attention to it. As of the posting of this article, there were over 28,000 retweets and 92,000...

David Larson