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Documents detail settlement of federal suit over juvenile confinement
New documents offer details about the proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit over solitary confinement of juveniles in North Carolina.
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NC budget makes license plate readers permanent amid privacy concerns
Cameras logged 152 million scans during the pilot; police cite arrests and recoveries while critics warn of surveillance and misuse.
Opinion
Federalist 31: Concerning the general power of taxation, cont…
It should not be forgotten that a disposition in the State governments to encroach upon the rights of the Union is quite as probable as a disposition in the Union to encroach upon the rights of the State governments.
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Cabarrus schools sued over biological males in girls’ restrooms
Three families have filed a federal lawsuit alleging that a Cabarrus County high school allows biological male students to use female restrooms.
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RNC backs NC lawmakers, elections board in same-day voter case
The Republican National Committee is supporting top North Carolina lawmakers and the state elections board at the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals. The RNC is urging the court to uphold a trial judge’s ruling in a case involving same-day voter registration.
Opinion
Federalist 30: Concerning the general power of taxation
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it to perform its most essential functions.
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4th Circuit upholds NC law restricting vape sales
The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a North Carolina law banning sales of vapes that lack federal government approval.
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Judges must employ proper review for best protection of NC rights
A John Locke Foundation legal expert draws attention to a 2024 state Supreme Court case that established a new test for protecting fundamental rights.
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NC joins lawsuit over FEMA grant conditions
NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a coalition of attorneys general from 22 states and the District of Columbia, and the governors of Kentucky and Pennsylvania, in a lawsuit filed in Rhode Island on July 23 against the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for threatening to withhold more than $1 billion in homeland security and disaster-response grants to states unless they adopt the Trump administration policies on elections and immigration.
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Top lawmakers, elections board defend challenged law at 4th Circuit
The North Carolina State Board of Elections and top Republican legislative leaders are defending a federal trial judge’s ruling in a case involving same-day voter registration rules.
Opinion
Federalist 29: Concerning the militia
It requires no skill in the science of war to discern that uniformity in the organization and discipline of the militia would be attended with the most beneficial effects, whenever they were called into service for the public defense.
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Federalist 28: Idea of restraining legislative authority in regard to common defense considered, cont…
It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the State governments will, in all possible contingencies, afford complete security against invasions of the public liberty by the national authority.
