Stories tagged: "NC Supreme Court"


Protesters attend a 2019 anti-gerrymandering rally   in Washington, DC. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
Democratic NC Supreme Court Justice Won’t Seek Re-Election

Justice Michael Morgan’s announcement highlights the consequences of judicial elections on issues like abortion rights, voting, and gerrymandering.

Reggie Weaver speaks outside the Legislative Building in Raleigh, N.C, on Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson, File)
NC Supreme Court OKs Partisan Gerrymandering and Voter ID Laws

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. 

North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, Republican, speaks in front of the US Supreme Court in December. He urged the US Supreme Court to take up a case his side lost at the North Carolina Supreme Court. The state court, however, has agreed to rehear that case itself. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
NC Supreme Court Will Hear Voting Rights Cases It Already Decided

The rehearings not only threaten free and open elections, but also undermine the integrity of the state’s highest court, voting rights groups say.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, in 2021. The state Supreme Court order last week blocked a long-gestating court order forcing the state legislature to pay out for years of underfunding public schools. (AP Photo/Gary D. Robertson, File)
The Tragedy of North Carolina’s Leandro Case

Last week, a newly-elected Republican majority on the state Supreme Court blocked millions of dollars for underfunded schools. They haven’t just undermined the courts. They’ve undermined all of us.

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‘Power Grab’: New Republican Majority on NC Supreme Court Agrees to Rehear Voter ID and Redistricting Cases Decided in December

The two Democratic justices on the court disagreed with the majority’s decision, with Justice Anita Earls writing that rehearing the redistricting decision was a “power grab” and a “radical break with 205 years of history.”

FILE - Dennis Gaddy, the co-founder of Community Success Initiative is shown at the Raleigh, N.C. office on Dec. 18, 2019. Gaddy, 62, served time behind bars and said he was unable to vote for seven years after being released from prison because he was on probation. Community Success Initiative is a plaintiff in a voting rights lawsuit that was heard Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, by the North Carolina Supreme Court. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)
56,000 North Carolinians Could Lose Their Voting Rights. Here’s How.

People on parole or probation after felony convictions—or those who've yet to pay their fines after a conviction—could lose their voting rights due to a case before the North Carolina Supreme Court.

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NC Republicans Ask State Supreme Court to Throw out Recent Rulings That Prevented Partisan Gerrymandering and Voter ID Laws

The GOP’s request for total control is not altogether surprising, as the courts have repeatedly found that North Carolina Republicans have gerrymandered and disenfranchised Black voters in the state with “almost surgical precision.”