Gutting the power of the governor and attorney general who are Democrats. They also have a bad challenge to an election they lost.
1/ A Republican judge who narrowly lost a race for a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court is trying to get around 60,000 ballots thrown out based on a theory that some election deniers worried was too extreme: http://www.propublica.org/article/jeff…
— Doug Bock Clark (@dougbockclark.bsky.social) 2024-12-24T14:51:39.796Z
The President and Vice President should publicly condemn what NC Republicans are doing as we condemn illiberal acts across the world. What NC Rs are doing is wrong, and our leaders should say so.
— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) 2024-12-14T14:53:36.956Z
Since the Tea Party take-over of the North Carolina GOP, the state has moved to the forefront of undemocratic measures to protect minority power.
— Cas Ⓜ️udde 🤷♂️ (@casmudde.bsky.social) 2024-12-12T23:21:32.111Z
Among other things, the bill moves authority over elections to the state auditor—not a role that oversees elections anywhere else—simply because a Republican happened to win that race last month
— The Downballot (@the-downballot.com) 2024-12-11T22:01:09.316Z
Republicans are also trying to overturn their loss for North Carolina's Supreme Court, whose 5-2 GOP majority legalized gerrymandering & upheld voting restrictions in 2023.The only way voters can make elections fairer is electing a Dem majority, but the GOP stealing this seat would shift it to 6-1
— Stephen Wolf (@stephenwolf.bsky.social) 2024-12-11T21:54:01.690Z
🚨BREAKING: Third Count a Charm: Riggs Wins North Carolina Supreme Court Race! http://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/…
— Marc Elias (@marcelias.bsky.social) 2024-12-10T22:29:04.612Z
Everyone should know about what's happening in North Carolina. Republicans are using Trump's playbook to try to overturn an election. I wrote about it last week:
— Judd Legum (@juddlegum.bsky.social) 2024-12-08T16:56:53.385Z
Sad! 