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Biden urges term limits for U.S. Supreme Court justices, new ethics rules
Protesters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, during oral arguments on a presidential immunity case. (Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom)WASHINGTON — Before he leaves the Oval Office...
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Much-attacked final Title IX rule goes into effect while still blocked in 26...
Education Secretary Miguel Cardona in a briefing on Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024 discussed the new Title IX regulation that has gone into effect. In this photo, Cardona speaks at the Queen theater on Dec....
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Chair of U.S. Senate tax panel probes GOP megadonor’s travel gifts to...
Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sits with his wife and conservative activist, Virginia Thomas, while he waits to speak at the Heritage Foundation on Oct. 21, 2021. (Photo by Drew...
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Council charged with improving prisoner reentry in NC unveils its strategic plan
Gov. Roy Cooper is shown here signing an executive order in January establishing the North Carolina Joint Reentry 2030 Council. (Photo: Department of Adult Correction)North Carolina released its...
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Added delays in store for Trump in 2020 election interference case
Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, attends a pre-trial hearing at Manhattan Criminal Court on Feb. 15, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Brendan McDermid-Pool/Getty...
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A federal judge’s order puts Cornel West on North Carolina’s fall ballot
Third party presidential candidate Cornel West (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)A federal judge has ordered the state Board of Elections to put presidential candidate Cornel West on the November...
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A family sues Moore County for institutionalizing children after their...
Rumina Slazas and her children are suing Moore County. (Photo courtesy of Disability Rights NC)A Moore County woman and her two disabled children are suing Moore County claiming that the county...
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NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty’s Noel Nickle on their new...
Noel Nickle, executive director of the North Carolina Coalition for Alternatives to the Death PenaltyIt’s been 18 years now since North Carolina last put a person to death as punishment for a crime – a...
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Racial Justice Act case rests with Superior Court judge after closing arguments
Johnston County courthouse. Photo: North Carolina Judicial Branch website.SMITHFIELD — Closing arguments took place Wednesday in a Johnston County court proceeding with significant implications for...
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Republicans sue NC elections board, alleging ‘deliberate’ flouting of voter...
(Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)Republicans sued North Carolina’s elections board on Thursday, demanding enforcement of a new law that requires cross-checking jury documents to remove...
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North Carolina joins antitrust lawsuit against real estate software company
State Attorney General Josh Stein (Left) and Monica Burks, policy counsel at the Center for Responsible Lending. (Photo: Greg Childress)North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein on Friday announced...
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Federal judge pauses program that grants protections for undocumented spouses
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Biden administration plan to give deportation protection to undocumented people married to U.S. citizens for at least 10 years. (File photo of a 2018 protest...
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NC Republicans seek a voter purge that would violate federal law
Photo: Getty ImagesRepublicans want the courts to kick 225,000 voters off the North Carolina rolls by the end of next week. The North Carolina Republican Party and the Republican National Committee...
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DOJ looks to revive classified documents case against Trump, argues judge’s...
Special Counsel Jack Smith is looking to reopen a case against former President Donald Trump, filing arguments on Monday, Aug. 26, with a federal appeals court of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to...
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Special Counsel Smith files new indictment in Trump’s Jan. 6 case
Special Counsel Jack Smith has filed a new version of the indictment against former President Donald Trump on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election to take into account a U.S....
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SC death row inmate wants his attorney to decide how he will die
The above shows the space in the Department of Corrections’ Columbia prisons complex for executions, as seen from the witness room. The firing squad chair (left) was added following a 2021 state law...
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Biden’s newest student loan repayment plan temporarily blocked by Supreme Court
The Saving on a Valuable Education (SAVE) plan provided lower monthly loan payments for borrowers and lessened the time it takes to pay off their debt. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)WASHINGTON —...
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Democrats renew calls for Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from cases...
Commissioner Martin E. Moore of Buncombe County calls on state Supreme Court Justice Phil Berger, Jr. to recuse himself from cases involving his father, Senator Phil Berger, Sr. at a Thursday press...
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Trump’s Jan. 6 case to extend beyond Election Day under timeline laid out by...
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Clinton Middle School on Jan. 6, 2024 in Clinton, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)This report has been...
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A Superior Court judge says RFK Jr. must remain on NC’s ballot, but gives him...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images)A Wake County judge turned back Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attempt to be removed from North Carolina ballots, ruling from the bench Thursday...
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