The 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on May 9 in a lawsuit challenging North Carolina’s crime against felons voting in state elections. A federal trial judge struck down the crime in April 2024.
The North Carolina State Board of Elections and elected district attorneys across the state are urging a federal Appeals Court to reverse a ruling throwing out the state’s crime for felon voting. A federal judge issued a decision in April supporting plaintiffs challenging the law.
A federal judge issued an order Wednesday officially ending the legal fight between North Carolina’s attorney general and Wake County’s district attorney. The two officials, both Democrats, had disputed possible enforcement of a 1931 state criminal libel law.
Almost a month after securing a legal victory at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is asking a federal trial court to rule a state criminal libel law unconstitutional. Stein’s lawyers filed a motion Thursday for summary judgment in his lawsuit challenging the criminal libel law.
The potential prosecution of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein on misdemeanor criminal libel charges linked to the 2020 election campaign is over. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman delivered that news Thursday afternoon.
Former N.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Jim Exum could mediate a settlement of the criminal libel law dispute pitting the state attorney general against Wake County’s district attorney. Paperwork filed Friday in U.S. District Court shows that competing parties in the case titled Grimmett v. Freeman have agreed to use the 87-year-old Exum as a mediator.
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein tried to work out a deal with the Wake County district attorney’s office that could have delayed grand jury action connected to a disputed state law. That detail emerges from Stein’s latest filing with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman is asking the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reject an emergency plea from N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein. Stein wants the Appeals Court to block the Wake D.A. from pursuing criminal charges linked to a Stein campaign ad. Stein has urged 4th Circuit judges to rule by Friday.
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein is asking the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block the Wake County district attorney from proceeding with any criminal charges linked to a challenged state law. Stein has asked the court to make a decision by Friday.
District Attorney Scott Thomas, who served more than six years in the General Assembly as a Democrat in first the House and the Senate from 1999-2006, has left the Democrat party and become a Republican. Thomas announced the switch late last week. He serves in North Carolina’s 4th Prosecutorial District 4, which includes Carteret, Craven and Pamlico counties. On January...
RALEIGH — Friends of former Ferry Division Director Jerry Gaskill, 63, of Cedar Island, are throwing a retirement party for him even though his abrupt departure from state government was apparently not by choice.
