Former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg faces a 19-year federal prison sentence in connection with a bribery conviction and a guilty plea in a multibillion-dollar insurance fraud case. That’s according to reports Tuesday from the McClatchy Newspapers.
Former top NC political donor Greg Lindberg is seeking to limit the amount of additional time he will have to spend behind bars in connection with a federal bribery conviction and a guilty plea in a separate insurance fraud case.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed without comment Thursday to take up a dispute involving N.C. election maps. Justices will consider the case Moore v. Harper after the court returns from a summer break. Justices will decide “Whether a State’s judicial branch may nullify the regulations governing the ‘Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives...
Just as the fall election campaign season heats up in September, the N.C. Supreme Court could hear new arguments in the legal battle over state election maps. That’s if the state’s highest court grants a request from plaintiffs in the election redistricting case.
Following the 2020 census, the Democrat-majority state Supreme Court imposed new maps drawn by “special masters.” A document filed in Superior Court lays out fees submitted by the special masters and their assistants. It shows $195,138.39 for eight days of work.
North Carolina’s most recent legal conflict over election maps could produce a new dispute involving fees for court-appointed special masters. A filing Tuesday at the N.C. Supreme Court signaled that possibility. Phillip Strach, an attorney representing Republican legislative leaders, filed a motion with the state’s highest court. He asked justices to extend briefing deadlines by...
A top N.C. Senate redistricting leader is raising new concerns about one of the men who helped draw the state’s latest congressional map. Those concerns are based on new revelations from New Jersey.
The special masters’ congressional map protects Democrats from a coming red wave.
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 10:10 p.m. to reflect the N.C. Supreme Court’s response to multiple appeals. The N.C. Supreme Court is refusing to insert itself back into the state’s legal dispute over legislative and congressional redistricting at this time. A series of court orders issued about 10 p.m. Wednesday denied requests for...
Despite controlling the N.C. General Assembly and the redistricting process under the state Constitution, and winning the statewide vote in 2020, Republicans are set to lose ground in North Carolina’s congressional delegation. Under a new congressional redistricting map imposed by a panel of three Superior Court judges, guided by three special masters, Republicans could do...
A bipartisan unanimous three-judge panel has upheld newly drawn maps for North Carolina’s legislative elections. But the same panel has rejected a revised map for congressional elections. In place of a remedial congressional map drawn by the Republican-led General Assembly, the judges substituted their own map for the 2022 congressional elections. A panel of three...
