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A North Carolina Supreme Court justice ended her federal lawsuit against an ethics commission on Wednesday because she said the judicial panel scrutinizing her public comments about the courts ...
A lawyer for Associate Justice Anita Earls, one of two registered Democrats and the only Black jurist on the seven-member […] The post North Carolina justice ends suit against ethics panel after ...
In August 2014, the North Carolina legislature removed the SBI from the Department of Justice, and Governor Pat McCrory signed the 2014-15 budget bill. That bill, moved the SBI to the North Carolina Department of Public Safety [ 13 ] for administrative purposes (i.e. human resources, payroll, etc.), and the State Crime Lab remained under the ...
The legislature derives its authority from Article II of the North Carolina Constitution. [11] The North Carolina General Assembly is the state legislature. Like all other states except for Nebraska, the legislature is bicameral, currently consisting of the 120-member North Carolina House of Representatives [12] and the 50-member North Carolina ...
I was disappointed, I’ll concede, that a federal court last week didn’t, even at this early stage, prevent the N.C. Judicial Standards Commission’s continuing harassment of Justice Anita Earls.
The 1776 Constitution of North Carolina says the following about the Justices of the Peace: "XXXIII. That the Justices of the Peace, within their respective counties in this State, shall in future be recommended to the Governor for the time being, by the Representatives in General Assembly; and the Governor shall commission them accordingly: and the Justices, when so commissioned, shall hold ...
GOP lawmakers propose repealing NC law they passed to erase criminal records. Avi Bajpai. May 22, 2024 at 8:57 AM ... a major criminal justice reform bill that lawmakers unanimously passed in 2020.
In 2012, the North Carolina Department of Correction and the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention were merged with Crime Control & Public Safety to create the new agency. [2] The department is headed by a secretary of public safety, who is appointed by the governor of North Carolina.