Gov. Josh Stein, state legislative leaders, and North Carolina Highway Patrol commander Freddy Johnson all hope a three-judge panel will rule in their favor in Stein’s challenge of a 2024 state law. All three parties submitted motions Tuesday seeking summary judgment in the case.
The five living former governors of North Carolina are backing current Gov. Roy Cooper in his legal battle with state legislative leaders over appointments to state boards and commissioners. The bipartisan group of former governors filed paperwork Tuesday with the North Carolina Court of Appeals. They want to submit a friend-of-the-court brief as that court addresses a dispute over appointment changes to seven state boards.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has decided not to take up two cases pitting the state’s Democratic governor against Republican legislative leaders. One case involves a fight over changes to the State Board of Elections. The other involves a dispute over appointments to seven other state boards and commissions.
North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. has asked his colleagues to decide whether he should take part in two cases pitting the state’s Democratic governor against top Republican legislators. One of those legislators is Berger’s father, the state Senate leader. In two orders released Monday, Berger Jr. referred decisions about his participation in the cases to the other six members of North Carolina’s highest court.
Top North Carolina legislative leaders reject Gov. Roy Cooper’s request that state Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger Jr. stay away from two cases pitting the governor against the legislature. The governor cites the role Berger’s father plays in both cases as state Senate leader.
Gov. Roy Cooper is asking the North Carolina Supreme Court to steer clear of two cases pitting the governor against top legislative leaders. At the same time, Cooper seeks Justice Phil Berger Jr.’s recusal “or disqualification” from both cases.
North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders are asking the state Supreme Court to take up two disputes with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. Both focus on changes to appointments for state boards and commissions. The state’s high court would have to bypass the Court of Appeals to take the cases, both titled Cooper v. Berger.
UPDATE, 1:48 p.m. Friday: Gov. Pat McCrory has signed S.B. 4 into law. The bill, which the N.C. House passed by a 63-27 vote Friday afternoon, consolidates three state agencies into a new, bipartisan State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement, makes Supreme Court races partisan contests, and amends the Court of Appeals decision-making process. The House had...
RALEIGH — Gov. Bev Perdue's campaign received more than $28,000 in unreported free air travel over a 20-month period from her friend New Bern attorney Trawick "Buzzy" Stubbs, according to a report by State Board of Elections investigator Kim Westbrook Strach.
The nation’s far-sighted governors are exercising caution about a federal “bailout” of their states, while certain myopic chief executives are making jokes.
American high schools are again under fire, and this time, Judge Manning (the judge presiding over the Leandro case) isn't the one fanning the flames. Rather, Governors from most of the states have entered the fray, calling for reforms to American high schools and to data collection on graduation rates.
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