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Mark Robinson breaks silence on scandal, personal failures in new interview

Former North Carolina lieutenant governor Mark Robinson broke his silence in a new interview, acknowledging for the first time that a CNN report alleging he made sexually and racially charged posts on an adult website had some basis in truth, while describing the months after his 2024 election loss to Josh Stein as the darkest period of his life.

David N. Bass

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Appeals Court restores defendant’s felon firearm possession charge

The North Carolina Court of Appeals has ruled that a trial judge was wrong in 2024 to dismiss a charge of possession of a firearm by a felon in a Forsyth County case. The defendant had challenged the charge as unconstitutional based on recent US Supreme Court rulings in gun-rights cases.

CJ Staff
Opinion

Free speech, even for views we hate

If Kimmel's employers independently (or after hearing from viewers) decided that these comments crossed the line and that this was the final straw, fine. But the federal government leaned heavily on Disney, the owners of ABC, to cancel Kimmel's show. What else can we call this but government censorship?

David Larson