Legislative leaders, the Republican Party, and the State Board of Elections all filed documents this week opposing a preliminary injunction in a federal election lawsuit. The lawsuit challenges provisions in North Carolina’s new election law.
Top state legislative leaders have filed paperwork this week to intervene in three recent federal lawsuits. Each challenges state election law. Lawyers for State Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, filed motions to intervene in all three cases in North Carolina’s Middle District.
State legislators tied the expansion to a budget that is late, mainly due to a fight over casinos. But we are leaving billions of dollars on the table.
State senate leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, wants to remove the state's Jim Crow-era literacy test for voters. It "ought to be out of our constitution."