“For this Court to reopen rulings just weeks after they were decided is unprecedented and appalling,” Gov. Roy Cooper said.
Despite the razor-thin margin, House Minority Leader Robert Reives remains upbeat according to the Assembly. As leader, Reives is tasked with keeping House Democrats unified.
Republicans in the legislature last week passed several bills that would loosen gun restrictions and they did so during the same week that at least six guns were found at schools in central North Carolina.
The NCGOP has fast-tracked a racist and undemocratic “anti-rioting” bill meant to stifle free speech and allow protesters to be punished with mandatory jail time just for being arrested.
Gender-affirming care is life-saving and all state employees deserve proper health care and to be accepted in their workplace. Dale Folwell disagrees.
The Republican-controlled high court is considering a decision that will determine whether North Carolinians on probation will keep their right to vote or if they are going to be disenfranchised again.
Since losing his veto-proof supermajority in 2018, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore has gone to great lengths to hold on to power to advance his agenda.
North Carolina Republican Senate Majority Leader Paul Newton compared the end of slavery to the right-wing effort to ban abortion during his appearance on “State Lines” on PBS North Carolina.
The Fair Maps Act, would amend the state Constitution by removing the redistricting power from legislators and instead giving it to an independent commission made up of regular North Carolinians.
This election also brought forth historical wins, as based on General Assembly library records that go back to 1921, Democrats put more women than men in the legislature.