The NC House approved a raft of election and budget changes, including a provision that could disenfranchise voters wrongly flagged in a federal database. That bill passed only with Republican votes.
Governor Josh Stein said it is “premature” to say if he will sign House Bill 328, legislation that would ban intoxicating hemp products in the state.
As millions of acres burn across the western United States, some wildland fire veterans are fearful that aggressive fire suppression tactics ordered by the Trump administration — coupled with extreme, fast-moving blazes — could put firefighters in danger as conditions escalate this month.
NC House lawmakers took no action Tuesday on a bill that hemp advocates say would have outlawed their industry in the state.
A coalition of news media organizations and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will have to wait a bit longer to learn whether a lawsuit seeking the release of records from the school will go forward. An Orange County judge who conducted a hearing in the case Tuesday did not immediately issue a ruling.
Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche is one step closer to confirmation after the Republican Judiciary Committee voted to advance his appointment on a party-line vote on Tuesday, and based on promises he made to faith leaders around the country last week, that means national anti-abortion actions may be one step closer as well.
NC House set to act on elections bills, budget bills, hemp restrictions and at least one veto override before a break that could last months.
Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, who had been withholding support for Blanche, voted with other members of the committee along party lines, 12-10, to send Blanche’s nomination to the full Senate. It is unclear how soon the Senate will vote on the confirmation.
US House Ethics Committee is recommending censure for US Rep. Chuck Edwards of North Carolina, who was under investigation for allegations of inappropriate conduct toward two young women who worked in his office.
States do not have time before November’s midterm elections to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive order mandating overhauls of their mail-in-voting systems, two dozen Democratic state officials told the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday.