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North Carolina Open Thread: Riggs wins, Stein sues, Thousands protest, Sheriff says no to ICE [1]
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Date: 2025-02-09
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The Wake County Superior Court ruled the same day it heard the GOP Supreme Court candidate’s challenge to a wide swath of early, absentee, military, and overseas ballots.
Just hours after a hearing on Judge Jefferson Griffin’s challenge to more than 65,000 ballots in the state Supreme Court election, a state judge upheld the state election board’s rejection of those claims in a late Friday ruling.
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein sued Friday to block part of a Republican-led law that limits who he can appoint to vacancies on state courts.
Senate Bill 382, passed late last year, requires the governor to fill a vacant seat on the Court of Appeals and state Supreme Court with a candidate who belongs to the same political party as the previous occupant of that seat.
The Raleigh protest was part of a movement to hold 50 decentralized protests in 50 states opposing Trump on Wednesday.
Thousands of peaceful protesters encircled the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh for hours Wednesday as part of a nationwide movement opposing President Donald Trump and his agenda.
North Carolina Republicans are once again seeking to curb the power of one of the state’s elected Democrats. A bill filed Wednesday in the state Senate would prevent Attorney General Jeff Jackson from joining lawsuits against President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
A North Carolina judge ruled in a landmark case on Friday that race played a key role in the death penalty trial of Hasson Bacote, a Black man who challenged his death sentence under the Racial Justice Act.
The court found evidence of discrimination in the case as well as in others filed in Johnston County.
Army officials are considering changing the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, according to an NBC News report. NBC News said this is according to two people familiar with the matter.
President Donald Trump said he would change the name back, while campaigning in Fayetteville in fall of 2024. The location was renamed in June 2023 after having been named Fort Bragg since 1922.
"I walked in, the first question that I asked - 'should we change the name from Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg," Trump said on Oct. 4. “So here's what we do: We get elected, I’m doing it,” he told the crowd at Crown Arena.
Fort Bragg was a reference to confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg from Warrenton. The name change came as part of an initiative by the Department of Defense to rename nine military installations bearing the names of confederate soldiers.
The Army referred questions to the office of the secretary of defense. A spokesperson for the office did not respond to a request for comment.
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