State legislative leaders are urging a judge to reject a request that would delay the end of the 32-year-old Leandro education funding case.
School board plaintiffs in the 32-year-old Leandro education funding lawsuit plan to ask the North Carolina Supreme Court for a rehearing.
North Carolina Supreme Court justices upheld a law designed to help victims of childhood sexual abuse. Yet one justice accused colleagues of "extreme originalism."
Three recent cases dealing with the castle doctrine, human trafficking, and habeas corpus divided state Supreme Court Republicans and Democrats.
Had Democrats succeeded with a 2021 plan to rewrite state Supreme Court recusal rules, Justice Anita Earls might have been disqualified from the recent Leandro hearing.
Legal issues raised by North Carolina's attorney general and a state Supreme Court justice deserve further scrutiny.
Judges and justices deserve more freedom to comment on matters of public concern, especially in a state that fills the jobs through elections.
The fate of a 29-year-old court fight could depend on a technical legal issue.
Support for a state Supreme Court justice's federal First Amendment lawsuit does not mean support for the content of her speech.
Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here: Democrat North Carolina State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls, a well-known liberal activist before and during her time on the bench, appears to be actively ignoring and defying North Carolina’s Code of Judicial Conduct, the state’s ethical rule book for judges and Supreme Court justices. Woodshed recently...
In January of this year, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls spoke glowingly of her work on the state’s Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice. Along with Attorney General Josh Stein, Earls is the co-chair of the task force, created in the summer of 2020 by Gov. Roy Cooper. According to the task...
