North Carolina Supreme Court

Tight race for the North Carolina Supreme Court is heading to another recount

9:53pm December 03, 2024

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

The very close election for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat heads next to a hand recount even as election officials announced a machine recount of over 5.5 million ballots resulted in no margin change between the candidates.

North Carolina court race is extremely close as counties complete election tallies

10:06am November 18, 2024

by Associated Press

An already close race for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat reached a razor-thin margin as most counties completed final tallies from the Nov. 5 election.

Politics & Government

Case heard by NC Supreme Court may affect how partisan officials file voter fraud claims

11:14pm April 11, 2024

by Makiya Seminera, Associated Press

An attorney representing voters accused of fraud in the 2016 election warned North Carolina’s highest court that their eventual decision could allow political operatives to make voter fraud allegations without consequence — but the justices had several questions.

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N.C. Supreme Court suspends Guilford judge

4:46pm March 25, 2024

by Paul Garber

The state’s highest court has suspended a Guilford County judge after finding she violated the judicial code of conduct.

A North Carolina court justice wants to block an ethics panel probe, citing her free speech

9:25am August 30, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

A Democratic justice on North Carolina's Republican-majority Supreme Court sued an ethics panel

Politics & Government

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Morgan won't seek reelection next year

1:07pm May 18, 2023

by Gary Robertson, Associated Press

One of the remaining registered Democrats on a North Carolina Supreme Court whose new Republican majority recently overturned previous decisions on gerrymandering and voter identification announced Thursday that he won't seek reelection next year.

North Carolina Senate leader Phil Berger

Politics & Government

N. Carolina justices quickly revisit redistricting, voter ID

3:27pm March 13, 2023

by Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

The North Carolina Supreme Court is revisiting this week whether a previous combination of justices g

Politics & Government

North Carolina’s gerrymandering case before U.S. Supreme Court considered one of the "most important" in 100 years

3:40pm November 01, 2022

by David Ford

Congressional redistricting is on the U.S. Supreme Court docket in December, with North Carolina front and center. Moore v. Harper will decide whether the state Supreme Court can strike down congressional maps that have been gerrymandered by the state legislature. The eventual ruling could have enormous ramifications for the entire country.

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GOP primary will include three judicial statewide races

12:14am May 16, 2022

by Paul Garber

North Carolina's U.S. Senate and a slew of congressional races are getting the bulk of the attention in this year's midterm primary.

Courts

NC Supreme Court Orders New Trial In Death Of Jason Corbett

8:07am March 15, 2021

by Paul Garber

North Carolina's highest court ruled Friday that a woman must get a new trial in her husband's 2015 beating death and granted the same to her father, agreeing evidence had been wrongly excluded tha