Courts

Mike Schietzelt, John Locke Foundation criminal justice fellow, discusses problems linked to North Carolina’s complicated criminal code for Carolina Journal Radio. Watch the interview here.

Think the idea of packing the U.S. Supreme Court with more justices makes sense? Joe Biden disagrees. Or at least the congressional Joe Biden of 35 years ago disagreed. Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon explains. Former vice president Joe Biden slammed the “bonehead idea” of packing…

The N.C. Supreme Court has a new chief justice, new associate justice, and a 6-1 partisan advantage for Democrats. Rick Henderson analyzes the political implications of recent Supreme Court changes for the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Terry Stoops critiques Gov. Roy Cooper’s education budget proposals.

In a 2017 white paper on the need to rewrite North Carolina’s criminal code, Jessica Smith, the W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Public Law and Government at the UNC School of Government, observed that “ambiguities, loopholes and inconsistencies in the law drive up the cost of criminal…

A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling favoring UNC Health Care in a class-action lawsuit involving charges for operating room time. Alexander Julian III, a Carrboro-based science fiction writer and not the similarly named fashion designer, had brought the suit. It challenged…

A unanimous three-judge panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling favoring a state worker challenging her firing by Gov. Roy Cooper. The appellate judges agreed the Democrat Cooper did not have the authority to reclassify Veronica Wright’s job in the Office of State Human…

Kevin Daley of the Daily Caller explores U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent actions on the Supreme Court. Chief Justice John Roberts has made common cause with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc as late, breaking with his conservative colleagues on cases relating to abortion, the death penalty and…

Lindsay Marchello and Kari Travis report for Carolina Journal Online on transparency among N.C. governments. The Daily Journal uses a judge’s recent error as the basis for a lesson about tax rates.