RALEIGH (AP) — Candidate filing in North Carolina will resume Thursday as scheduled, as the state Supreme Court refused late Wednesday to delay the use of redistricting maps endorsed by trial judges earlier in the day. The justices declined any ...

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By MARK SHERMAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — With no Supreme Court opening to slow them, President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are putting judges on federal trial and appellate courts at a much faster clip than ...

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  Recently I was doing some honest-to-goodness work editing this fine newspaper, I promise, and I ended up getting sucked down an internet rabbit hole that convinced me that one of the cornerstones of the section of the U.S. Constitution ...

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  A Guilford County district court judge who publicly sounded off in the local media about misconduct allegations leveled against him has now been sent off, having agreed to resign from the bench following a lengthy investigation into those multiple ...

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Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed district court judges in districts 3B, 29A and 29B, the North Carolina Judicial Branch announced. Bob R. Cherry will become a district court judge in Judicial District 3B (Carteret, Craven, and Pamlico counties). He currently ...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal judges can’t rule from beyond the grave, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled. The high court said in an unsigned opinion that a federal court can’t count the vote of a judge who died in a ...

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The North Carolina Supreme Court has directed a commission to study the portraits hanging inside its courtroom amid a complaint about one of a pro-slavery judge. The News & Observer reported Thursday that the state’s top court formed a commission tasked with ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A panel of judges was asked Aug. 15 to decide whether North Carolina’s Republican-dominated legislature is trying to fool voters by calling for constitutional changes without explaining the effect would be to strip more power from Democratic Gov. ...

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RALEIGH (AP) The first day of North Carolina judicial candidacy filing attracted more than 120 people seeking seats on the bench this November. Filing began at noon June 18 for over 150 District Court or Superior Court seats, along with one ...

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RALEIGH (AP) A panel of North Carolina trial court judges has rejected arguments by a government reform group and local residents that a special session of the General Assembly violated the state constitution. The case centers on a December 2016 ...

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