RALEIGH (AP) Legal motions by North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and interest groups to keep constitutional amendments proposed by the Republican-controlled General Assembly off November ballots are back in court. A three-judge panel scheduled arguments Aug. 15 on requests by ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina’s five living former governors are meeting to oppose constitutional amendments on November ballots that would swing powers involving judicial vacancies and state boards from the executive branch to the legislature. Democrats Jim Hunt, Mike Easley and ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A state judge declined Aug. 7 to give immediate relief to Gov. Roy Cooper and interest groups who want proposed constitutional amendments off fall ballots because they argue referendum language written by Republican lawmakers is false and misleading. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and other opponents of legislative Republicans filed a flurry of late-hour lawsuits Aug. 6 to block referendums on constitutional amendments and to let a Supreme Court candidate disclose his party affiliation on ballots. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper contends ballot language approved by Republican lawmakers describing two proposed constitutional amendments are so false and misleading the courts must prevent voting on them. Cooper’s office announced Aug. 4 he would sue in ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina legislature returned briefly to business July 24 so Republicans could wrest the seemingly ordinary work of adding titles to proposed constitutional amendments on November ballots out of the hands of a state panel controlled by Democrats. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) North Carolina lawmakers once expecting to be done legislating for months when they adjourned their session in June are back at work less than four weeks later. The General Assembly is starting a special session Tuesday for the ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The North Carolina legislature is entering what’s expected to be the final week of this year’s session ready to act on proposed constitutional amendments and any more vetoes by Gov. Roy Cooper. The General Assembly reconvenes June 25 ...

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