Civil rights advocates and Democratic state legislators are defending and praising a state Supreme Court justice for suing to block a state ethics panel from investigating her public comments that she says are protected by the First Amendment. They spoke on Wednesday at a Legislative Building news conference in support of Anita Earls, who is the only Black woman on the court. Earls filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against the North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission. A commission attorney told her earlier this month that a previous investigation was being reopened in light of a media interview in which she spoke on the Supreme Court’s record related to diversity.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 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 comments that she says are protected by the First Amendment.
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