JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
The North Carolina elections board declared this week that it has the power to bar Rep. Ironically, it was Justice Edwin Reade of the North Carolina Supreme Court who later explained , “[t]he idea [was] that one who had taken an oath to support the Constitution and violated it, ought to be excluded from taking it again.”
JonathanTurley
MARCH 15, 2021
An opinion out of North Carolina is raising very serious concern over free speech this week. Yet the North Carolina Supreme Court has now upheld the sentence without any opinion. There is no debate that Eldridge was wrong to record the proceedings and that the court was within the law in holding him in contempt.
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SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 6, 2022
In February, the North Carolina Supreme Court (which had a 4-3 Democratic majority) ruled along partisan lines that the new map violated a provision in the state constitution that guarantees free elections. Constitution was drafted it was also “universally understood” that the state legislature was created by the state constitution.
SCOTUSBlog
MARCH 20, 2023
Lawyers for those legislators told the justices on Monday that although the North Carolina Supreme Court is reconsidering part of its 2022 ruling, the Supreme Court should nonetheless decide the case before it. The North Carolina Supreme Court’s decision on rehearing will not change either of those decisions, the legislators say.
SCOTUSBlog
JULY 28, 2022
Dobbs is also the only example of a case where a complete draft of the majority opinion was leaked prior to the publication of the final draft. Politico’s release of an early draft of the opinion in Dobbs sent a whirlwind across the nation. The long lapse between Feb. Dobbs opinion vs. Dobbs leak.
SCOTUSBlog
OCTOBER 26, 2022
The two universities being challenged are Harvard University and the University of North Carolina. At the same time, the second case, challenging the admissions program at the University of North Carolina, was winding its way through the courts. SFFA says it has more than 20,000 members.
JonathanTurley
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Below is my column in the Hill on the frenzy of gerrymandering in various states and the selective condemnation of President Joe Biden of such practices in North Carolina. But the North Carolina decision could seriously undermine Democratic plans in other states to rig elections and gain seats in Congress.
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