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North Carolina Senate proposal again seeks to bar transgender people from...
A demonstrator holds a sign reading "Trans Kids Belong" at a March 2024 rally outside the North Carolina Legislative Building. Republican state senators have introduced a bill in 2025 that would enact...
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Trump asks U.S. Supreme Court to restore blocked deportation plan
The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Photo by Ariana Figueroa/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — The Trump administration submitted an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday in an effort to resume...
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GOP judge’s voter challenge is a reflection of his past embrace of...
Republican state Supreme Court candidate Jefferson Griffin continues to pursue litigation in hopes of overturning the results of the November election he lost to incumbent Justice Allison Riggs. (File...
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Planned Parenthood Medicaid funding case before the Supreme Court could limit...
A volunteer clinic escort holds a sign outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, South Carolina, on Friday, March 28. (Photo by Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette)U.S. Supreme Court justices will...
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Federal judge pauses Trump DHS effort to strip protections for Venezuelans
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem delivers remarks to staff at DHS headquarters in Washington on Jan. 28, 2025. (Photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta-Pool/Getty Images)WASHINGTON — A federal judge...
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Bill to allow expedited removal of occupants from residential property moves...
The North Carolina Legislative Building as it appeared on March 14, 2025. (Photo: Brandon Kingdollar/NC Newsline)The North Carolina House Rules Committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would permit the...
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NC House panel approves bill to allow handguns at private schools
(Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)The North Carolina House Judiciary 2 Committee approved a bill Tuesday that would allow individuals to carry handguns at private schools, the latest in a...
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Appeals court rules in favor of GOP Supreme Court candidate Griffin’s...
Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) Two Republican state Appeals Court judges on a three-judge panel...
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North Carolina House passes expedited squatter removal bill despite due...
The N.C. House of Representatives (Photo: Christine Zhu/NC Newsline)The North Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill allowing for alleged squatters to be removed from private property without...
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U.S. Supreme Court pauses order to return wrongly deported Maryland man
Prisoners sit at the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT, a mega-prison in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador, on April 4, 2025. The Trump administration has acknowledged mistakenly...
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NC Supreme Court suspends 15-day deadline for voters Judge Griffin is...
Judge Jefferson Griffin and Justice Allison Riggs (Courtesy photos)The state’s highest court has temporarily blocked an order that would have set a deadline for more than 60,000 voters to prove their...
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Supreme Court permits Trump to use wartime law for deportations, for now and...
Prisoners look out of their cell as Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem tours the Terrorist Confinement Center or CECOT, on March 26, 2025, in Tecoluca, El Salvador. (Photo by Alex...
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NC House committee approves two more concealed weapon bills
(Photo by Aristide Economopoulos/NJ Monitor)The North Carolina House Judiciary 2 Committee voted Tuesday afternoon to advance two bills targeting the regulation of concealed weapons, moving them along...
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North Carolina state auditor would gain expanded investigative powers under...
The North Carolina Legislative Building in Raleigh. (Photo: Clayton Henkel/NC Newsline) A North Carolina House panel advanced a bill expanding the investigative powers of the state auditor’s office...
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ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with...
Trump administration “border czar” Tom Homan giving the keynote address at the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix convention center on April 8, 2025. (Photo: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy / Arizona Mirror)The...
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Democrats say NC Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin’s election lawsuit has...
Judge Jefferson Griffin and Justice Allison Riggs (Courtesy photos)Democrats said GOP Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin’s attempt to throw out votes subsequent to last November’s state Supreme...
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Judge Griffin asks Supreme Court not to review appeals court election ruling
Supreme Court of North Carolina (Photo: nccourts.gov)The story of North Carolina’s unsettled 2024 state Supreme Court election took yet another turn on Friday when Republican challenger Judge Jefferson...
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DOJ ordered to give daily updates in standoff with judge over wrongly...
Minister of Justice and Public Security Héctor Villatoro, right, accompanies Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, center, during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center, or CECOT...
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North Carolina Supreme Court issues order in Riggs-Griffin case
Democratic incumbent Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and her Republican challenger, Judge Jefferson Griffin. (Courtesy photos) Dispensing with a need for additional briefs or oral arguments, the...
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