The GOP’s new super-majority in the state House has emboldened Republicans to run gleefully toward some of the most contentious policies passed in other conservative states.
Republican legislatures across the U.S. enacted abortion bans soon after the Supreme Court’s struck down Roe v. Wade, but North Carolina’s attack on abortion rights came in the last few months.
While the suit condemns the entirety of the abortion ban, it focuses on vague provisions that make it unclear when exceptions for rape, incest and the life of the mother would actually be applied.
As lawmakers return for a new session this month, House Democratic Leader Robert Reives says that Republican leadership should be honest with voters about their plan to further restrict abortion rights and should pay more attention to North Carolinians trying to make ends meet.
Superfund sites are locations that have been contaminated due to hazardous waste being dumped, left out in the open, or otherwise improperly managed, including in manufacturing facilities, processing plants, landfills, and mining sites.
Republicans want to toss out any absentee ballots received after Election Day. In 2020, that was more than 11,600 votes.
Proposed private school voucher expansions divert even more money from an already underfunded public school system, and fail to address severe teacher shortages.
At a discussion in Raleigh last week, local business owners warned the ban threatened the state’s economic success.
For nearly three decades, families in underserved communities in eastern NC have been asking the state to fix their chronically underfunded schools. They talked to us about keeping the faith.
The decisions, reversals of the court’s previous rulings, give the Republican-controlled General Assembly the ability to entrench their power, without checks or balances.
