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Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control
14 hours, 26 minutes ago

Latest challenge to North Carolina’s power-shifting law focuses on state elections board control

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s current governor and his successor tacked on another lawsuit Monday disputing a key provision within a GOP law that erodes the powers of several incoming Democratic state leaders — the latest in a longstanding power struggle between North Carolina’s executive and legislative branches over who controls the state’s elections. The lawsuit challenges one of the …

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Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power-shifting law could be first of many
1 week, 4 days ago

Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power-shifting law could be first of many

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Stein, the outgoing attorney general, and Cooper, another Democrat leaving office shortly after eight years on the job, focused their lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court on a provision that would prevent Stein from picking his own commander of the State Highway Patrol. It also would prevent the governor from ensuring state laws are …

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North Carolina GOP lawmakers enact a law eroding the incoming Democratic governor’s powers
1 week, 5 days ago

North Carolina GOP lawmakers enact a law eroding the incoming Democratic governor’s powers

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers on Wednesday enacted a law over the governor’s veto that would diminish the powers afforded to his successor and other other Democratic statewide winners in the Nov. 5 elections. Many provisions within the 132-page law seek to diminish powers afforded to Gov.-elect Josh Stein, incoming attorney general Jeff Jackson, the next Democratic lieutenant governor …

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US election 2024: Democrat Josh Stein wins North Carolina’s governor race. Who is he?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

US election 2024: Democrat Josh Stein wins North Carolina’s governor race. Who is he?

Live Mint  

Democratic candidate Josh Stein on Wednesday won the governor race on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson in North Carolina. Stein, a Harvard-trained lawyer, former state senator and the state’s chief law enforcement officer since 2017, will succeed fellow Democrat Roy Cooper, who was term-limited from seeking reelection. Otherwise, Stein’s campaign priorities largely align with Cooper’s, focusing on increasing …

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In effort to refute porn-site message report, Mark Robinson campaign hires a law firm
2 months, 4 weeks ago

In effort to refute porn-site message report, Mark Robinson campaign hires a law firm

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson said Tuesday his campaign has hired a law firm to help investigate a CNN report stating he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board. The announcement comes as more North Carolina Republicans disturbed by last week’s report said that if Robinson can’t formally refute the …

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Supreme Court rejects Green Party's appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot
3 months ago

Supreme Court rejects Green Party's appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot

NPR  

Supreme Court rejects Green Party's appeal to put Jill Stein on Nevada ballot toggle caption Mattie Neretin/Getty Images The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday allowed Nevada to block the Green Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein from the 2024 ballot. In July 2023, however, the Nevada Secretary of State’s office incorrectly provided the Green Party with the “ballot initiative” form, which …

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Votes for Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count in Georgia for now
3 months, 1 week ago

Votes for Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count in Georgia for now

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — In yet another reversal, votes in Georgia for presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz will count for now after the Georgia Supreme Court paused orders disqualifying them. The court’s decision Sunday came as Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office said military and overseas ballots will be mailed beginning Tuesday with West and De la Cruz …

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Judge disqualifies Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz from running for president in Georgia
3 months, 1 week ago

Judge disqualifies Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz from running for president in Georgia

Associated Press  

ATLANTA — Presidential candidates Cornel West and Claudia De la Cruz are disqualified from running for president in Georgia, two state court judges ruled Wednesday, saying that their electors didn’t file the proper paperwork. Fulton County Superior Court Judges Thomas A. Cox Jr. and Emily Richardson ordered the state to post notices in polling places warning that West and De …

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How your third-party vote could hand Trump the presidency
3 months, 3 weeks ago

How your third-party vote could hand Trump the presidency

Raw Story  

Now that Robert F Kennedy Jr has dropped out, some of his voters appear ready to move their support over to Jill Stein, the Green Party’s candidate. But I want to address something else: that third parties give the impression that voting is the only tool of democratic politics. Voting for Jill Stein or any third-party candidate in protest of …

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Some North Carolina abortion pill restrictions are unlawful, federal judge says
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Some North Carolina abortion pill restrictions are unlawful, federal judge says

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some of North Carolina government’s restrictions on dispensing abortion pills, such as requiring that doctors to prescribe and provide the drug to the patient in person, are unlawful because they frustrate the goal of Congress to use federal regulators to ensure the drug is distributed safely, a judge ruled on Tuesday. Yet some “statutory requirements of the …

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Jeffrey Epstein’s victim says release of documents was ‘retraumatizing’: ‘Consistently triggering’
11 months, 1 week ago

Jeffrey Epstein’s victim says release of documents was ‘retraumatizing’: ‘Consistently triggering’

Hindustan Times  

A Jeffrey Epstein victim has opened up on how the recently released documents were “retraumatizing to survivors.” Elizabeth Stein, a sex-trafficking victim who filed a lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein’s estate in November, said that the “constant bombardment” of news about the paedophile’s crimes has been “triggering” for victims. This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York …

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Lawsuit accuses NCAA of antitrust violation in college athlete transfer rule
1 year ago

Lawsuit accuses NCAA of antitrust violation in college athlete transfer rule

Associated Press  

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A federal lawsuit filed by a group of states alleges the NCAA’s transfer rule for college athletes violates antitrust law. The suit said the rule “unjustifiably restrains the ability of these college athletes to engage in the market for their labor as NCAA Division I college athletes.” The lawsuit filed by West Virginia and six other states …

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North Carolina Democrat kicks off gubernatorial campaign tour alongside governor
1 year, 2 months ago

North Carolina Democrat kicks off gubernatorial campaign tour alongside governor

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Josh Stein pitched himself Tuesday as a champion for the state’s most vulnerable residents in the face of policies that he said have threatened women’s reproductive freedom, LGBTQ+ safety and health care access. “North Carolina has been a better place because Josh Stein has been attorney general,” Cooper said. “Hate and bigotry and …

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Why is Jill Stein running Cornel West’s Green Party campaign?
1 year, 5 months ago

Why is Jill Stein running Cornel West’s Green Party campaign?

Slate  

This is part of Two Bad, a series exploring Americans’ lackluster enthusiasm for the 2024 election and the problem of the third-party candidate. It’s not outlandish, then, to think some of them will peel off to support famed intellectual Cornel West, who is seeking the Green Party’s nomination. As West Germany’s Green Party surges earned global attention in 1984, leftists …

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California may end travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ laws
1 year, 8 months ago

California may end travel ban to states with anti-LGBTQ laws

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When North Carolina in 2016 banned transgender people from using the bathroom of their gender identity in public buildings, California retaliated by banning state-funded travel to that state and any other state with laws it deemed discriminatory against LGBTQ people. And it has complicated some of the state’s other policy goals, like using state money to pay …

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DA says libel case against N. Carolina Attorney General over
1 year, 10 months ago

DA says libel case against N. Carolina Attorney General over

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina prosecutor said Thursday that campaign-related charges won’t be pursued further against Attorney General Josh Stein or his aides, one day after an appeals court ruled the political libel law her office was seeking to enforce is most likely unconstitutional. Wake County District Attorney Lorrin Freeman said that the ongoing investigation and prosecution of potential …

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2 NC Democratic attorneys meet at appeals court over AG’s ad
2 years ago

2 NC Democratic attorneys meet at appeals court over AG’s ad

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Representatives for two elected North Carolina Democratic government lawyers argued on Tuesday before an appeals court deciding whether potential prosecution of Attorney General Josh Stein or others over a 2020 campaign commercial should be blocked further while his lawsuit continues. Stein defended the 2020 commercial as a “corrective” to false accusations made by then-Republican AG challenger Jim …

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Wave of sex abuse lawsuits seen as NY opens door for victims
2 years, 1 month ago

Wave of sex abuse lawsuits seen as NY opens door for victims

Associated Press  

ALBANY, N.Y. — Sexual assault victims in New York will get a one-time opportunity to sue over their abuse starting Thursday, under a new law expected to bring a wave of allegations against prison guards, middle managers, doctors and a few prominent figures including former President Donald Trump. “I feel like I’ve been in jail for almost three decades,” said …

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Appeals panel blocks law’s use in NC campaign ad prosecution
2 years, 4 months ago

Appeals panel blocks law’s use in NC campaign ad prosecution

Associated Press  

N.C. — A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked a local North Carolina district attorney from prosecuting state Attorney General Josh Stein or anyone else for his 2020 campaign ad through a criminal libel law. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles refused to issue a preliminary injunction, saying the law was constitutionally permissible because it criminalized “false defamatory …

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Grand jury weighs possible charges against North Carolina AG
2 years, 4 months ago

Grand jury weighs possible charges against North Carolina AG

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A local North Carolina grand jury on Monday advanced its consideration of possible criminal charges against state Attorney General Josh Stein and two aides over an investigation into a political ad targeting Stein’s 2020 election opponent. After hearing from a State Bureau of Investigation agent, the Wake County grand jury asked in writing that the Wake district …

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North Carolina attorney general fights campaign ad probe
2 years, 4 months ago

North Carolina attorney general fights campaign ad probe

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The campaign committee for North Carolina’s Attorney General Josh Stein asked a federal court on Wednesday to block enforcement of a seldom-used libel law as the committee faces possible criminal prosecution for a political ad from Stein’s last race. Stein’s GOP rival in 2020 — Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neill — cited the law in a …

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Judge again refuses to block use of law in NC AG probe
2 years, 4 months ago

Judge again refuses to block use of law in NC AG probe

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge on Monday again refused to block a North Carolina district attorney from pursuing charges using a specific state law about a 2020 television commercial run by state Attorney General Josh Stein’s campaign. But U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles on Monday declined to temporarily prevent that law from being enforced while the campaign committee and …

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North Carolina AG in legal bind amid probe over 2020 TV ad
2 years, 4 months ago

North Carolina AG in legal bind amid probe over 2020 TV ad

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The campaign committee for North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein, facing trouble for a TV ad aired against a rival in 2020, plans to ask a federal court to block enforcement of a state law making it illegal to knowingly circulate false reports to damage a candidate’s election chances. Stein’s campaign committee argues that the statute is …

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Judge won’t keep blocking use of NC law in probe of AG’s ad
2 years, 4 months ago

Judge won’t keep blocking use of NC law in probe of AG’s ad

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge opened the door Tuesday for a district attorney to try to prosecute someone for a 2020 campaign ad by North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein using a specific criminal count that the Democrat contends is unconstitutional on free-speech grounds. U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles refused to issue a preliminary injunction two weeks after she …

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