A redistricting fight in the Buckeye State raises similar questions to those in North Carolina's high-profile U.S. Supreme Court case.
The founder of a Brunswick County charter school welcomes the latest development in the school’s bid to win a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court. The school is challenging an Appeals Court ruling. Appellate judges labeled the charter school a “state actor.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the Biden administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer to offer her thoughts about a case from North Carolina involving a charter school treated as a “state actor.” Supreme Court justices reviewed the case Friday.
A former U.S. solicitor general from the Obama administration spelled our a "clear, correct standard" that could strike down N.C. courts' actions in a redistricting dispute.
Two weeks before they’re set to lose their majority, N.C. Supreme Court Democrats issued rulings Friday striking down the state’s photo voter identification law and the election map used for state Senate races. Both rulings featured party-line 4-3 splits, with the court’s four Democrats outvoting their three Republican colleagues.
The U.S. Supreme Court will likely wait until next June to rule on whether activist state courts can use vague provisions within a state constitution to throw out election maps drawn by a legislature. But nearly three hours of oral argument Wednesday in the Moore v. Harper case offered clues about the court’s decision. That decision should arrive next June.
Here are the Woodshed quick takes immediately following the oral arguments. In-depth coverage from Carolina Journal will follow. This post will also be updated. A coalition of Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court appears to be coalescing around a middle ground that would find in favor of the North Carolina General Assembly in Moore v....
One of America's leading historians highlights founding-era concerns about judges playing politics.
One of South Carolina's early governors – and one of the nation's most controversial founding fathers – is taking center stage in a critical U.S. Supreme Court case this week that could fundamentally alter the control of federal congressional elections.
Focusing on the purported problems of the Independent State Legislature theory, observers miss the actual dispute in North Carolina's redistricting case.
North Carolina’s Republican legislative leaders filed on Friday their final written arguments before the Moore v. Harper redistricting case heads to oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court. Oral arguments in the case are scheduled for Dec. 7.
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