Legislative and Policy
Highlighting state and national legislative news, focusing on some of the most important policy issues of the day.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's challenge of defending a same-sex marriage ban that he personally opposes demonstrates the unique position faced by attorneys general.
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North Carolina’s Family, Faith, and Freedom Protection Act has garnered global attention and spurred a contentious constitutional debate.
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IRS ruling brings certainty and relief to married, same-sex couples with changes that provide for a more uniform application.
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In August of 2013, President Obama announced his intention to seek Congressional approval for military action in Syria while noting his belief, like his Presidential predecessors, that he is not constitutionally required to do so.
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Common Core, a new educational curriculum, is met with skepticism as schools across the state begin to apply the new teaching methods.
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A recent U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruling means the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will resume its review of whether Yucca Mountain is a suitable location for the storage of hundreds of thousands of metric tons of spent nuclear fuel.
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North Carolina legislators wasted no time in proposing new and somewhat controversial gun-related legislation in the first 100 days of the 2013-2014 long session. The finished product, however contained less controversy than these original proposals.
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While many of the candidates may yet be unknown, it is certain that the 2014 election ballot will contain at least one constitutional amendment on which voters will decide.
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Despite the conclusion of the North Carolina General Assembly’s 2013 long session, Moral Monday organizers avow that they will continue to fight the recent overhaul in state legislation.
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Only time will tell if the General Assembly’s decision to abolish publicly funded judicial elections was a wise one.
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In the wake of controversial bills and the weekly “Moral Monday” protests, the Legislature has received extensive coverage from both local and national media outlets, much of which has been anything but positive.
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U.S. District Court judge approves FDA plan to allow the sale of Plan B One-Step emergency contraception without point-of-sale restrictions.
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Despite evidence of racial bias in the past prosecution of death penalty cases, Governor McCrory repealed the Racial Justice Act, resuming executions without an appeals mechanism for defendants whose sentences were affected by race.
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The Supreme Court refuses to hear tobacco companies’ challenge to the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
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Despite widespread state adoption of media shield laws, there remains no statutory equivalent at the federal level.
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