The first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court urged her colleagues to avoid the thorny issue of disputed election maps.
The N.C. State Board of Education has OK’ed the final round of “unpacking documents” for new controversial social studies standards for K-12 public schools. The vote Thursday, July 8, means social studies teachers now have the full range of guiding documents to implement the revised standards for the coming school year. As with past votes,...
The N.C. State Board of Education voted 7-3 on Thursday, June 17, to approve guiding documents for controversial new social studies standards that place greater emphasis on race and gender in teaching U.S. history. The move comes even as lawmakers in the General Assembly are weighing legislation to delay implementation of the standards by one...
Sen. Ted Cruz sees America much as it was in 1980, seeking a strong yet principled leader. But his political memoir reminds us how difficult it is for even reformers to change the status quo.
RALEIGH — In October, a U.S. District Court judge in Charlotte threw out a lawsuit by Charlotte-area blogger Steve Cooksey, which claimed the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition had violated his freedom of speech by censoring his blog about his Paleolithic or “caveman” diet.
RALEIGH — Campbell University law professor Pat Hetrick recently discussed the re-definition of property with the John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai following Hetrick’s address to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society recently. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio (click here to find the station near you).
RALEIGH — A new N.C. House committee, reacting to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that approved a Connecticut local government’s seizing of one person's private property to give it to another person, began work Thursday reviewing the scope and breadth of North Carolina’s eminent domain statutes.
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision, N.C. must enact a constitutional amendment to protect private property.
One of the most wrongheaded decisions ever rendered by the U.S. Supreme Court, upholding McCain-Feingold, is simultaneously not as bad and far worse than you might think.
Further analysis of the new House and Senate maps reveals some interesting twists and scenarios for Democratic or Republican control in Raleigh -- after some litigation.
RALEIGH—Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, speaking at a John Locke Foundation luncheon Tuesday, said Democrats in the U.S. Senate are hijacking the nation’s courts. Meese criticized techniques used by Democrats to prevent a Senate vote on the Bush administration’s judicial appointments. “The Democratic leadership in the Senate is unwilling to carry out its constitutional responsibility,” he said.
