Three Republicans in the North Carolina Legislature have filed an ethics complaint against state Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs, a former civil rights lawyer who is running for reelection. Yet Riggs’ opponent, Judge Jefferson Griffin of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, had an attack ad ready to go referencing the “investigation” almost as soon as the ethics complaint was …
RALEIGH, N.C. — In massive victories for Republicans, the newly GOP-controlled North Carolina Supreme Court on Friday threw out a previous ruling against gerrymandered voting maps and upheld a photo voter identification law that colleagues had struck down as racially biased. Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who leads a national Democratic group whose affiliate helped support the redistricting litigation, …
North Carolina voters will soon decide whether their state constitution will be defined by a slim Democratic majority that has broadened civil rights or by a new conservative majority that will narrowly interpret the rights of voters, criminal defendants, and people seeking abortion care. In recent North Carolina Supreme Court elections, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee and the state Democratic …
The North Carolina Supreme Court has confronted systemic racism, reckoned with the state’s Confederate history, and protected voting rights under the leadership of Cheri Beasley, the first Black woman to serve as its chief justice. As Newby fought to seize the chief justiceship from Beasley, the North Carolina Supreme Court addressed a major controversy in the state’s criminal law: what …
