Anita Earls

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice ended her federal lawsuit against an ethics commission on Wednesday because she said the judicial panel scrutinizing her public comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her.

An ethics probe into a Black justice's comments about diversity will move forward after a federal judge denied her request to halt the investigation she says is quashing her right to free speech.

Civil rights advocates and Democratic state legislators defended and praised Wednesday a state Supreme Court justice for suing this week to block a state ethics panel from investigating her public

N.C. A&T State University has awarded its 2021 Human Rights Medal to North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls. 

A shift of power in the General Assembly, split votes on six North Carolina constitutional amendments, and a night for incumbents – North Carolina voters headed to the polls on Tuesday, and th