The $2 million in donations came from California megadonors, attorneys and - in one case - a sitting judge. But a new law ...

North Carolina Supreme Court Candidates The North Carolina Supreme Court, the highest court in the state, takes up appealed cases from lower state courts, having the final say on matters.

The North Carolina Supreme Court election was held in November, but unlike all the other races held that day, it is still undecided more than four months later. The race for a seat on the Tar Heel ...

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a North Carolina gerrymandering case, with some state lawmakers seeking a favorable interpretation of the "independent state legislature" theory.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is rehearing arguments in a redistricting case it ruled on in December, when Democrats held a 4-3 seat advantage on the court that now has a Republican majority.

While the rest of the country has moved on from the 2024 election, one race in North Carolina is still stuck in limbo. The election for a state Supreme Court seat between Democratic incumbent ...

Republican Judge Trey Allen, second right, speaks during the North Carolina Supreme Court Candidate Forum at Duke University Law School in Durham, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022.

North Carolina’s Supreme Court reversed itself Friday on partisan gerrymandering, ruling 5-2 that it poses “nonjusticiable, political questions.” Last year a 4-3 court said the opposite.

Supreme Court races in North Carolina were nonpartisan affairs until the Republican legislature ordered candidates to run as partisans, with R’s and D’s beside their names on Election Day ...

Justice Earls, 63, has been perhaps the most liberal voice on the North Carolina court since, running as a Democrat, she defeated a Republican incumbent in a State Supreme Court race in 2018.

But instead of complying with the North Carolina Supreme Court’s order and drawing a new map or waiting for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in Moore, the Republican-controlled Legislature took a ...