A number of black lawmakers in South Carolina briefly walked out of judicial elections Wednesday after the Legislature elected a white attorney who has never been a judge to the state Court of Appeals over an African-American woman who has ...

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North Carolina’s lawmakers capped off their final pre-election legislative session with a frenetic flurry of activity that wreaked havoc on candidate filing for this year’s judicial elections and could change the way that vacancies are filled in the state’s judiciary. ...

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Calvin and Hobbes, the titular characters in a beloved comic strip, were fond of playing a game called Calvinball. The rules of Calvinball, if you could call them that, were always made up as the game went along, with the ...

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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) Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes add more uncertainty to already unusual state elections this fall for judges and in races where new political parties want to field candidates. Cooper announced June 15 – less than three hours before a ...

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RALEIGH (AP) Republican lawmakers are advancing fragments of a statewide remapping of North Carolina’s judicial election districts in hopes of passing them before candidate filing for judges begins in just over two weeks. A House committee voted late June 1 ...

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Primary elections that had been scheduled for next year’s judicial and district attorney contests are once again off the table after the state’s legislature voted to override a veto by Gov. Roy Cooper on mostly party-line votes on Oct. 16 ...

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The status of next year’s primaries for judicial and district attorney elections are in limbo after Gov. Roy Cooper vetoed a bill that would have cancelled those primary elections while legislators work on crafting as-yet-unspecified changes to the way North ...

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Associate Justice Bob Edmunds and Wake County Superior Court Judge Mike Morgan have advanced to November’s general election for a seat on the North Carolina’s Supreme Court after a June 7 special primary marked by low voter turnout across the ...

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Voters will decide who fills a pivotal seat on North Carolina’s Supreme Court after the court divided 3-3 on whether the state’s constitution permitted legislators to introduce retention elections for Supreme Court justices. The deadlock leaves in place a March ...

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