Since Republicans gained control of the North Carolina legislature in 2011, judges have emerged as some of their staunchest adversaries. Now lawmakers want to curb state court powers.
Barry Yeoman
Barry Yeoman is a freelance journalist in Durham, North Carolina. He has covered his state's political landscape for 30 years. Follow him @Barry_Yeoman
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Toppled! Ridding Durham of Its Racist Monument
The liberal city wanted it down; the GOP state legislature forbade that; activists found a way to end that impasse.
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North Carolina on the Brink: Repeal of Anti-Transgender Bill Falls Flat
In North Carolina, which has become ground zero in the fight over LGBTQ rights, a special legislative session to repeal the state’s House Bill 2 devolved into name-calling and hostile stalemate.
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Will GOP Power Seizure in North Carolina Become National Model?
A bid by North Carolina’s GOP-controlled legislature to strip power from the state’s incoming Democratic governor has prompted another round of progressive protests and civil disobedience.
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Counter Protests Swamp KKK Celebration in North Carolina
A Ku Klux Klan gathering this weekend both recalled North Carolina’s racially troubled history, and demonstrated the strength and diversity of the state’s civil rights movement today.
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How To Steal (or Nullify) an Election
North Carolina Republicans are doing their damnedest.
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Democrats Make Gains in North Carolina Against Backdrop of Voter Suppression
Changing demographics, combined with the three-year effort by state Republicans to suppress minority and youth turnout, led to close races.
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Equality Becomes a Talking Point in North Carolina Gubernatorial Race
With the state’s demographics and political makeup shifting, backlash against anti-LGBT law may help send Democrat Roy Cooper to the governor’s office.
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Can Moral Mondays Produce Victorious Tuesdays?
North Carolina’s protest movement has galvanized the state’s progressives, but couldn’t stop 2014’s Republican tide. Its leaders say they’re only just beginning.
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Watch Party Dispatch: In the Durham Bubble, N.C. Progressives Caught Off-Guard By Hagan’s Defeat
Tar Heel progressives may not have loved their senator, but they worked hard to re-elect her—and thought they would.