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Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley (D) launched her campaign for the Tarheel State’s open Senate seat Tuesday.
In an announcement video, Beasley touted her legal career, stretching from her start as a public defender to her historic appointment in 2019 as the first Black woman to serve as chief justice of the state’s highest court.
Beasley cast herself as a fighter for a slate of Democratic priorities, referencing health care and affordable education as issues she plans on tackling should she serve in the Senate.
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“For too many families across North Carolina, the doors of opportunity have been closed. They’ve been left behind and ignored for too long. I’m running for Senate because it’s time for that to change. Whether it’s health care, education, the ability to find work that supports a family or retire with dignity, too often Washington only responds to the well-connected,” she said. “And as we come out of
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Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley announced on Twitter Tuesday that she’s running for the Senate seat to be vacated in early 2023 by Sen. Richard Burr, the senior Republican senator representing the state since 2005. Burr has long made clear that he won’t seek reelection in 2022.
After losing in 2020 to Chief Justice Paul Newby by a razor-thin margin of 401 votes out of early 5.4 million votes cast, Beasley became a partner at McGuireWoods, an international law firm with offices in Charlotte and Raleigh. She was appointed to the chief justice seat in 2019 by Gov. Roy Cooper. She served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from 2008 to 2012 before being appointed to the state’s highest court by then-Gov. Beverly Perdue. She then won statewide reelection in 2014.
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