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North Carolina's Republican leaders and gay-rights supporters are daring each other to clean up the mess over the state's law limiting LGBT protections against discrimination, which is crimping the state's economy as sponsors of major sporting events pull out of the state. Gov. Pat McCrory and GOP legislators have offered to consider rescinding the law, but only if the Democrats who lead Charlotte's City Council act first and essentially admit they were wrong to pass a local ordinance that would have expanded protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory dropped a lawsuit against the federal government Friday, but debate over the state's so-called 'bathroom bill' rages on. North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory speaks June 24 during a candidate forum in Charlotte, N.C. After suing the federal government in May to defend the state's controversial new law limiting LGBT rights, Gov. McCrory dropped the lawsuit Friday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by North Carolina to reinstate for November's elections several voting restrictions, including a requirement that people show identification at the polls. The court, divided in part 4-4, rejected a request made by Republican Governor Pat McCrory after an appeals court ruled last month that the 2013 law discriminates against minority voters.
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory said his state will petition the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene and reinstate a voter identification law that was struck down by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which said the law discriminated against minorities. After overturning the North Carolina law, which requires voters to show a form of state-issued photo identification before voting and also cuts down on the amount of time allowed for early voting, the Fourth Circuit also refused to stay its order pending an appeal to the Supreme Court.
North Carolina will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to allow a state law requiring voters to show identification to stand, after an appellate court struck it down a week ago, Republican Governor Pat McCrory said on Friday. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday refused the state's request to put its decision on hold while North Carolina asks the Supreme Court to overturn it ahead of the U.S. general election on Nov. 8. McCrory said the state will ask justices by early next week to stay the appeals court's ruling, which found that sweeping changes to the state's voting rules in 2013 intentionally discriminated against African-Americans.
Television spots aimed at educating voters about North Carolina's voter-ID law are being canceled. One million informational posters and push cards are outdated and most likely headed for the trash.
A Republican-led panel considered but ultimately shelved an early-voting plan Monday that could have made casting ballots more difficult for college students and black residents in North Carolina's third most populous county, despite federal court orders to undo what's been ruled a discriminatory ballot access law. A raucous crowd of 300 people packed the Guilford County Board of Elections meeting, determined to be heard in opposition to the Republican chairwoman's proposal, which would have cut a dozen early voting sites while complying with the letter of the appellate ruling.
Fresh off his Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump will appear in Winston-Salem next week with Gov. Pat McCrory, Sen. Richard Burr, Rep. Virginia Foxx and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Trump and his Republican cohorts will be in the Lawrence Joe Coliseum annex on Monday at 8 p.m., according to state GOP officials.
Pictured Above: North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory speaks to visitors at the opening ceremony of the 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Fort Fisher commemoration at Kure Beach, N.C., Jan. 17, 2015. Nothing is ever Gov. McCrory's fault.
The state budget still awaiting Gov. Pat McCrory's signature doesn't do enough for education or state retirees, two area Democrats running for legislative office this fall said Friday. Brownie Futrell and Sam Davis also said the Republican-dominated Legislature also didn't do nearly enough to change House Bill 2, North Carolina's nationally controversial "bathroom law."
The request for a preliminary injunction, filed late Tuesday, provides the most extensive look yet at the Justice Department's argument that the bathroom-access requirements violate federal law. The filing comes just after North Carolina lawmakers left the measure largely intact during their session that ended Friday, all but ensuring that the measure's fate will be decided in federal court.
In the days following North Carolina's first gubernatorial debate of 2016, polls show Gov. Pat McCrory and N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper neck-and-neck in one of the more closely watched governor's races in the country. A Public Policy Polling survey released in late June showed the candidates deadlocked at 41 percent.
Hillary Clinton is coming to North Carolina in her bid to capture the state's electoral votes for a Democrat for just the second time since 1976. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president scheduled a rally Wednesday afternoon at an exposition center at the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh.
"I have no sense as to whether leadership on the House side is going to take it up," said Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, who is himself a House budget chairman and often tapped to help draft complex pieces of litigation. McGrady acknowledged he had been involved in some tentative conversations about a measure that would roll back parts, but not all, of the controversial bill.
Senate Republican leaders released their $22.2 billion budget for 2016-17 to the public through the General Assembly website at 11:52 p.m. on a recent Tuesday, about nine hours before its initial consideration by senators on the Appropriations Committee. Two days and a few minutes later, just after midnight on Friday morning, the full Senate approved the spending plan on a party-line vote, setting up negotiations between the House and Senate on a final plan to send to Gov. Pat McCrory.
In the 1960s, Ernesto Miranda was identified in a police lineup by a woman, who accused him of kidnapping and rape. He was arrested and questioned by authorities for two hours until h confessed to the crimes.
U.S Attorney General Loretta Lynch is in North Carolina two weeks after filing a federal complaint against Governor Pat McCrory and state officials over House Bill 2. The attorney general's office says, "In this second phase of the tour, Attorney General Lynch will visit six jurisdictions around the country that have excelled in each of the six pillars discussed in the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing final report: building trust and legitimacy; policy and oversight; technology and social media; community policing and crime reduction; officer training and education; and officer safety and wellness."
It shouldn't have come as a surprise to observers that gauging public opinion on the issue of Transgender bathroom rights depends a lot on how you ask the question. But as the fallout from both the controversial North Carolina law that started this argument and the equally controversial federal directive to all public schools in the nation imposing the views of the administration on the nation starts to sort itself out, the debate is bound to change direction.
After weeks of taking a beating from critics over North Carolina's law dictating which restrooms transgender people can use, Gov. Pat McCrory adopted a strategy long favored by Southern conservative governors: He went after the federal government. The governor, trying to reshape the narrative as he fights for his political life, sued the Obama administration last week and accused officials of yet another overreach into state business.