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‘Dreamers’ were blocked from ACA insurance marketplace in 19 states. But not...
Demonstrators in front of the U.S. Supreme Court during a rally in support of DACA program participants in 2019 (Photo: Robin Bravender/States Newsroom) After an injunction by a federal court in North...
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Cooper, Stein sue to block new GOP-led law stripping governor-elect of powers
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (left) and Attorney General Josh Stein at a campaign event for Stein at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus on Oct. 28, 2024. (Photo: Galen Bacharier/NC Newsline)North Carolina...
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Judges topple gun restrictions as courts chart an uncertain path forward
A pro-gun rights demonstrator carrying an AR-15 and a handgun stands outside of the Tennessee State Capitol in Nashville in August 2023. Assault weapons bans have faced more challenges in federal...
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Fourth Circuit judge reverses retirement plans, preventing Trump from naming...
Judge James Wynn (File photo)In March, about 100 gathered in Judge James Wynn Jr.’s hometown of Robersonville to throw him a surprise retirement party. Nine months later, Wynn revealed his own...
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Want to fix food deserts and lower food prices? Enforce antitrust law,...
The grocery aisle at a Walmart. (Photo by Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal.)For now, anyway, grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons aren’t going to merge into a single grocery megagiant to confront...
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Mark Robinson asks to move CNN lawsuit back to state court
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson moved to have his defamation lawsuit against CNN returned to state court after the case was removed to...
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Republican Appeals Court Judge Griffin asks the NC Supreme Court to throw out...
NC Supreme Court (File photo)Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin asked the state Supreme Court on Wednesday to do what the state Board of Elections would not — throw out tens of thousands...
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Jan. 6 defendant allowed by court to attend Trump inauguration at the U.S....
Eric Lee Peterson, of Kansas City, Missouri, pleaded guilty to knowingly and unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In this Department of Justice photo, he is shown during the U.S....
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NC Board of Elections rejects GOP candidates’ election protests
(Photo: Clayton Henkel) The state Board of Elections on Friday dismissed the county-level protests four Republican candidates filed contesting November’s election results. Appeals Court Judge Jefferson...
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Criminal justice advocates push Gov. Cooper for major clemency grants in...
Gov. Roy Cooper (Photo: Galen Bacharier)As Governor Roy Cooper prepares to depart the Executive Mansion, criminal justice advocates are urging him to make use of his broadest set of powers: the ability...
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Cooper, Stein sue GOP leaders to block law stripping governor’s power over NC...
The North Carolina Legislative Building (Photo: Clayton Henkel) North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper and Governor-elect Josh Stein sued Republican legislative leaders Monday, seeking to block part of a new...
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Governor Cooper commutes 15 death sentences following years of advocacy
Gov. Roy Cooper (File Photo)Governor Roy Cooper commuted the sentences of 15 death row inmates to life without possibility of parole on New Year’s Eve following five years of vigils outside the...
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Riggs responds to Griffin’s request to delay certification of the NC Supreme...
Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs asked a federal judge to deny...
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Democrats object to Trump’s expected pardons of Jan. 6 defendants
Rioters are shown inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin on Thursday urged Americans to demand...
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‘The shield that protects our democracy’: Democrats celebrate Biden judicial...
President Joe Biden is joined by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., right, and Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., during a celebration of their work to appoint a...
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Trump to be sentenced in hush money case but avoid jail time
President-elect Donald Trump prepares to speak at the conservative gathering AmericaFest in Phoenix on Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo by Gage Skidmore | CC BY-SA 2.0)WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is...
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NC Democrats rally for Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs
Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs speaks at an NC Democratic Party rally on Jan. 5, 2025. (Photo: Lynn Bonner)Hundreds gathered for a Democratic Party rally behind the Legislative Building on Sunday...
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A federal judge sends NC Republican Judge Griffin’s contested voters case...
A federal judge has returned a lawsuit challenging thousands of votes cast in the November election filed by Jefferson Griffin, the Republican challenger for North Carolina Supreme Court, to state...
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Republicans on the NC Supreme Court block certification of the Democratic...
Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) At the request of GOP Judge Jefferson Griffin, Republicans on the...
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Appeals court revives sexual abuse case surrounding former NC State sports...
The Lewis F. Powell Jr. federal courthouse in Richmond is home to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. (Photo: Ned Oliver/ Virginia Mercury)A case concerning alleged sexual abuse by a former...
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