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Judges: North Carolina Congress Map Unlawful With Partisan Bias
Federal judges have affirmed their earlier decision striking North Carolina's congressional districts as unconstitutional because Republicans drew them with excessive partisanship, after the U.S. Supreme Court ordered the case be re-examined.
The three-judge panel ruled Monday again for election advocacy groups and Democrats who sued to challenge North Carolina's congressional boundaries.
The Greensboro-based court raised the possibility that North Carolina's 13 districts could be redrawn for this year's elections.
Appeals Court Won't Block Ruling On Candidate Party Label
North Carolina Republicans have been dealt another setback in their efforts to remove a state Supreme Court candidate's party affiliation from the ballot.
The state Court of Appeals declined Monday the request of GOP legislative leaders to block a lower court's order that candidate Chris Anglin be listed as a Republican on the November ballot.
A trial court judge this month halted enforcement of a new law removing party designations next to the names of Anglin and a few other judicial candidates because they had switched their affiliation too close to filing.
Anglin — a registered Democrat until three weeks before filing to run — says the law unfairly targeted him.
Trump Nominating North Carolina Native Rushing For 4th Circuit
President Donald Trump is nominating a North Carolina native who has worked for two current Supreme Court justices for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Trump announced Monday his choice of Allison Jones Rushing for the 15-member appeals court with jurisdiction over cases from the Carolinas, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia.
Rushing would replace Judge Allyson Duncan, a Durham native retiring after 15 years on the court.
Rushing is a partner in the office of a Washington law firm. She went to Wake Forest University and Duke law school and clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and for Justice Neil Gorsuch when he was on the 10th Circuit appeals court.
Senate Wraps Up Approval Of Latest Constitutional Amendments
North Carolina legislators have finalized two new constitutional amendments to submit to voters in November after a judicial panel's ruling keeping those questions off ballots caused them to try again.
On near party-line votes the Senate voted Monday for amendments designed to comply with the judges' decision last week. The House already approved the redone proposals last Friday as the Republican-controlled General Assembly called a special session to consider new amendments.
Both amendments would shift powers from the executive branch to the legislature when it comes to the state elections board and filling judicial vacancies.
UNC Boards Have Special Meetings In Aftermath Of Statue Fall
The boards that govern North Carolina's flagship university are holding special meetings a week after protesters tore down a century-old Confederate statue on campus.
The University of North Carolina declined to confirm the purpose of the specially convened meetings Tuesday, a week after the fall of the statue known as "Silent Sam."
The UNC system's Board of Governors is receiving a legal briefing, according to a public agenda that doesn't offer further details.
Duke Historians Ask To Remove Confederate Veteran's Name
Duke University history professors want to remove the name of a benefactor who espoused white supremacist ideas from their department's building.
University spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said Monday the history department asked to rename the Carr Building, where the department is housed.
Schoenfeld says the request, first reported by The Chronicle student newspaper, will go through a formal process for reconsidering names that gives trustees the final say.
The building is named for Julian Carr, a Confederate veteran and tobacco magnate who gave land where part of Duke was built.
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