I know many Democrats and progressives who continue to be frustrated by the conservative Republicans who have controlled the North Carolina General Assembly since 2010. The Left has spent years stating and restating its standard narrative about our state: that North Carolina has historically grown faster and been more successful than other Southern states because it was more willing to spend tax dollars on higher education, infrastructure, and other government programs.
On Wednesday afternoon, in the midst of a breathless display of legislative pettiness in Raleigh, Rep. Becky Carney of Mecklenburg County tried to get her head around what was happening in front of her. At an N.C. House committee meeting, a Republican lawmaker wanted to take the first step toward impeaching Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, a Democrat.
In 1937 - flush after his landslide re-election campaign and frustrated by a conservative Supreme Court - President Roosevelt came up with a plan. For each justice older than 70, he'd appoint an "assistant," raising the high court's membership from nine to as many as 15 and assuring a majority of liberal Democrats.
A well-intentioned but overzealous state law barring registered sex offenders from using Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media - whether or not their crimes involved either children or the internet - is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham resident Lester Gerard Packingham appealed his 2012 conviction of maintaining a social media profile as a sex offender, arguing that the state law is unconstitutional.
"Today is a great day for me, and hopefully this is a start to chipping away at the injustice of HB 2," transgender UNC employee says in statement A federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina would not have to adhere to the state's controversial "bathroom bill." In what is considered a major, if temporary, victory in the fight against North Carolina's controversial HB2, also known as the "bathroom bill," a federal judge ruled Friday that the University of North Carolina would not have to adhere to the law that would force transgender students and employees to use the restroom associated with the gender on their birth certificate.