The attorney who won a landmark U.S. Supreme Court gun-rights ruling 10 years ago shares his concerns about the case's impact.
Federal environmental regulations are battering farmers, and public policy research analyst Darren Bakst believes there is a mechanism to address the plight. It’s the next version of the federal Farm Bill, now in its early stages, said Bakst, a former John Locke Foundation researcher now with the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation. The regulatory burden is...
The U.S. Supreme Court returned to work in October with plenty of high-profile issues on its docket. Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow in constitutional studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, oversees analysis of the court’s last term in the latest edition of the Cato Supreme Court Review. During a recent visit to Raleigh, Shapiro briefed a local...
A resolution calling for a constitutional convention of states may get a vote in the N.C. House after it passed a Wednesday committee vote . Senate Joint Resolution 36 is sponsored by several Republicans and aims to call a constitutional convention under the powers given to state legislatures in Article V of the U.S. Constitution. The Senate...
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 reforms. If the justices accept a motion by state Attorney General...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated the youngest Supreme Court justice in a generation, 49-year-old Neil Gorsuch, who sits on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Gorsuch is a Colorado native who was educated at Harvard and Oxford universities. He clerked for Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy, worked in the Bush administration Justice...
Attorneys close to legislative Republicans told Carolina Journal special legislative elections in 2017 “are almost certainly off the table.” The attorneys think the U.S. Supreme Court won’t lift a stay issued Jan. 10 in the so-called Covington case on legislative redistricting. The court is in “a wait-and-see mode right now, and has not granted very...
The U.S. Supreme Court put a temporary halt to a three-judge panel’s order to hold special legislative elections later this year, and the top election official in the N.C. House thinks the justices eventually will toss out the off-year election plan. Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, said he was delighted by the Supreme Court’s stay. Lewis is chairman...
Ten words from a single U.S. Supreme Court justice just might have derailed an effort to end partisan gerrymandering through judicial fiat. “If it’s politics, it’s fine; if it’s race, it’s not.” Justice Elena Kagan, an Obama appointee, uttered that line during oral arguments Monday in McCrory v. Harris. That’s the case challenging North Carolina’s...
President-elect Donald Trump is likely to reshape the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and alter some of its most burdensome regulations, which will benefit North Carolina farmers, businesses, and utility ratepayers, state Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Donald van der Vaart says. Two of President Obama’s signature regulations, the Clean Power Plan, and Waters of the...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to stay — or delay — a ruling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that overturned the state’s voter ID law. The justices’ action means there will be no voter ID requirement for the Nov. 8 election. The appeals court also overturned four other provisions of...
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