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Monday, August 22nd, 2022
North Carolina Supreme Court Enacts a Full-Scale Judicial Coup
North Carolina’s Supreme Court has made one of the most insane judicial decisions in the nation’s history, and that’s absolutely not hyperbole.
In what can only be described as a full-scale judicial coup, the Democrat-controlled body has ruled that the North Carolina General Assembly is illegitimate and can not enact amendments to the state’s constitution. Their reasoning? That the state’s legislature is “
gerrymandered.”
The amendments in question were to enshrine the state’s voter ID law and to put in place an income tax cap. Those are now in limbo after the Democrat supreme court decided it has supremacy over the duly-elected officials of North Carolina’s voters. It’s hard to put into words how crazy that is and how dangerous of a precedent it is. This is the same court that ruled earlier in the year that the general assembly can’t draw its own congressional map, representing one of the few GOP failures regarding redistricting in a red state.
Democrats currently hold a 4-3 majority on the court, a dynamic almost certain to change after November’s elections where the GOP is favored to take a 5-2 majority. So the good news here is that this insane judicial coup won’t last long. That it’s gotten to this point is still dangerous, though. What happens if courts all across the country start ruling oppositional legislatures are illegitimate?
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Friday, July 15th, 2022
Received this email from the very liberal League of Women Voters and I’m passing it along to you as it shows how effective and determined the LWV is at squashing any common sense moves to make our elections more secure. So much easier to commit voter fraud when signatures on absentee ballots do not need to be verified ! Nancy
Hundreds of you spoke out against the problematic proposal – thank you!
| On Thursday, the State Board of Elections rejected a request to require a “signature-match” process that had the potential to invalidate legitimate absentee ballots.
The initiative by the NC Republican Party aimed to allow county boards of elections to compare voters’ signatures on their registration forms to today’s signature on an absentee ballot. This plan was fraught with problems. It had the potential to create an opportunity for human error and create disparate standards. And the process could have resulted in the invalidation of ballots, particularly of older voters or those with disabilities, whose signatures may have changed over time.
We brought this issue to the attention of our League members, and you responded in a big way! We heard about so many public comment submissions from League members throughout the state. We contributed greatly to the nearly 8,000 submissions that the NCBOE received. Thank you for making your voices heard!
This ruling is a victory for voters. But we must be on the lookout for future tactics designed to disenfranchise voters, cast doubt on the integrity of our elections, and discourage North Carolinians from making their views count at the ballot box.
Thank you for standing up for voters!
Until the next battle,
Marian Lewin
1st Vice President
League of Women Voters of North Carolina
P.S. There is an election happening July 26 in North Carolina! Early voting is underway and will conclude on July 23. Learn more about it on our website, and be sure to direct your networks to VOTE411.org to get all the nonpartisan election information they need. Six municipalities – Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Hickory, Mooresville, and Sanford – will hold local general elections on July 26. Other municipalities and boards of education will hold runoff elections that day – Cary, New Bern, Rocky Mount, Statesville, Franklin County Board of Education, and Jackson County Board of Education District 2. And two second primary elections will take place – Graham County Sheriff (Republican) and Wake County Sheriff (Democratic). |
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2022
This Supreme Court Ruling Will Prove Vital to Defending Voter ID and Other Laws
State legislative leaders in North Carolina have the right to intervene in litigation to defend the constitutionality of the state’s voter ID law.
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE:
The Supreme Court’s decision will make it easier for other state legislatures to intervene to defend their state laws (if they first pass a law such as North Carolina’s to give them that right) when they are faced with the same type of misbehavior: state officials who refuse to do what they swear an oath to do — defend the constitutionality of state laws no matter their personal and political opinions.
The Supreme Court’s important ruling last week on voter ID in North Carolina has been overlooked in the fervor over the high court’s spot-on decisions upholding the Second Amendment and religious freedom and overruling Roe v. Wade.
But the court’s procedural decision Thursday in Berger v. NAACP will help prevent state officials from sabotaging the defense of state election laws and other measures being attacked by their political allies and friends.
The Berger decision did not uphold the constitutionality of North Carolina’s new voter ID law, since that issue was not before the court. But in an 8-1 decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court held that state legislative leaders in North Carolina have the right to intervene in litigation to defend the constitutionality of the state’s voter ID law.
This is particularly important in a state with divided government. In North Carolina, the state Legislature is controlled by Republicans, while the governor and attorney general are Democrats who oppose any type of voter ID requirement.
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Saturday, June 11th, 2022
North Carolina Education Honchos Swapped Race-Essentialism Buzzwords To Avoid Public Pushback
Staff members within North Carolina’s education administration swapped out “red-flag” buzzwords linked to race-essentialism, according to internal emails reviewed by the Daily Caller. The officials replaced certain terminology to avoid public scrutiny of critical race theory-inspired seminars. The correspondence was first obtained by a concerned parents organization.
The North Carolina Early Learning Network (NC-ELN) — which works hand-in-hand with the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction — began developing sessions that provide “equitable, anti-racist, and culturally responsive early care” in November of 2020, according to internal NC-ELN emails obtained by No Left Turn in Education. North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction denies that it knew about the NC-ELN’s development of critical race theory-adjacent programming.
As “Early Education Equity” (E3) guidance and training was developed, NC-ELN staff attempted to nix “red flag” words such as “racial equity” from its guidance to avoid tipping off concerned citizens, according to emails dated June 24, 2021.
Terms like “equity” and “bias” were deemed good words, while “racial equity” was dumped for “cultural equity.” “All children and families” was suggested as an alternative to “people of color” and “narrow societal norms” was substituted for “whiteness.”
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Wednesday, May 4th, 2022
Election Integrity Dead: Killed in Court
by J. Christian Adams
May 3, 2022 J. Christian Adams is President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, the nation’s only public interest law firm dedicated wholly to election integrity. He served in the Voting Section of the United States Department of Justice and currently serves as a commissioner appointed by President Trump on the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
- Many election operatives know that elections are won or lost because of process. For decades, one side has been focused on policy, big ideas, and winning debates. Meanwhile, the other side has been focused on process and the rules of the elections game.
- [A] war is taking place around elections that has nothing to do with voting machines being controlled by Italian satellites or Internet hackers. They don’t need to be.
- Election process fights have become a Darwinian “survival of the fittest.” Whichever side can effectively adapt to a new technological or cultural environment often determines who wins and who loses.
- In 2020, an unprecedented burst of mail ballots swamped election offices because of the fright of COVID. All over the country, judges struck down or suspended laws that would have ensured those mail ballots were processed according to the law. At the same time, hundreds of millions of dollars in private money poured into election offices to change the way the elections were run.
- It is a dangerous place we find ourselves, where citizens through the legislative process are enacting safeguards to keep our elections clean and manageable, yet a hyper-funded onslaught has mastered the art of killing real, verifiable, integrity in elections.
- First, do not assume there will be a “red wave” this November. Many election operatives have demonstrated a fierce ability to adapt and leverage cultural and technological awareness into electoral wins.
- Second, a “red wave” cannot overcome the “blue wave” tactics of 2020 seen in urban areas flush with outside cash.
- Third, the Biden administration is already turning the battleship of the entire federal government toward turnout in 2022. Institutions have mobilized every single agency into a weapon to increase voter turnout among “historically marginalized communities.” Decoded, that means racial groups. This is all happening with little fanfare, and little means to stop it.
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2022
NORTH CAROLINA PHYSICIANS FOR FREEDOM
Right to Treat
Physicians are being prevented from providing treatment to their patients by employers, public health agencies, pharmacies, and threats from medical boards leaving us unable in some situations to protect and serve patients facing disease. Many patients are being advised to go home until their disease worsens to the point of hospitalizations. We believe that prevention and early treatment measures are always the best courses of action. We defend the right to prescribe treatment and that physicians should not be restricted from prescribing safe and effective treatments that prevent unnecessary sickness and death. It is both usual and legal for medical providers to prescribe FDA approved medications for off-label prescription.
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Friday, April 29th, 2022
Martha Jenkins, one of our conservative ladies, recently wrote this excellent article regarding the Democrats’ push to pack the Supreme Court. Nancy
JENKINS: Keep nine Supreme Court Justices
Public support for packing the Supreme Court is very low, yet progressives are mounting a campaign to add additional seats to skew the ideological balance of the court. Most people, if they think of court packing at all, assume that the idea died with Franklin D. Roosevelt when his own Democrat party panned the idea as too drastic. But recent rhetoric and published articles show that there is a movement afoot to expand the court as soon as progressives get enough votes in Congress.
There have been nine justices on the Supreme Court since 1869. Most people think the Constitution sets the number at nine. However, the Constitution grants Congress the authority to set the number of justices on the court, and bills were filed in both houses of Congress in 2021 to add four more seats.
Manipulating the court for partisan advantage is antithetical to the American system of checks and balances provided by an independent judicial branch. The Supreme Court keeps both the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch accountable to Constitutional principles. One of the first things Hugo Chavez did when he took over Venezuela was to pack the Court so that it could not stop him from becoming a dictator. Without an independent Supreme Court, there is nothing to check the balance of power, and no guarantee that states can hold the federal government to the Constitution.
During the 2020 campaign, Joe Biden said voters didn’t deserve to know where he stood on court packing. Soon after his inauguration, President Biden appointed a commission to report on potential “reforms” to the Supreme Court. This Commission sidestepped the court packing issue, although progressive groups like Demand Justice were vocal in criticizing the Commission for its lack of support for court packing. The Commission’s report was essentially a ruse, intended to keep the issue of court packing in the background.
Public polling shows that the American public is very much against increasing the number of justices. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said “Nine is a good number” and retiring Justice Breyer has also spoken against packing the court. Several years ago, a bipartisan group of former state attorneys general ― including Rufus Edmisten from North Carolina ― proposed “The Keep Nine Amendment” which simply says “The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices.”
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Thursday, April 7th, 2022
More North Carolina Schools Plan to Keep “Gender” Changing a Secret From Parents.
A second district developed a plan to pair children with adults in schools to support minors as they change their “genders.”
By: Sloan Rachmuth
New Hannover County schools are allowing teachers to hide circumstances where children change their gender at school, according to documents obtained by Education First Alliance.
The district, which includes Wilmington and Carolina Beach, developed a “gender support plan” back in 2020 which asks teachers to establish a “shared understanding” about how to support a child’s “authentic gender” at school.
On a scale of 1-10, teachers rank how supportive they think the parents of a child who wants to change their gender are. Then a plan is asked for dealing with unsupportive parents during the “gender change” process. In addition, the form asks teachers to identify an adult at the school who would provide support to the gender-bending student.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2021
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VIDEO 2 – DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA REPUBLICAN PARTY – FIGHTING COMMUNISM IN DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA
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Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Republican Betrayal on Fake Infrastructure Bill
Establishment Democrats and Republicans and their corporate media mouthpieces view the American taxpayer as an ATM to fund their priorities.
The so-called infrastructure bill that 19 miserable, loathsome Republican senators just helped to pass shows the utter worthlessness of a corporatist Republican Party out of touch with its constituents. Most of these senators are from red states, and many of them are people Trump bailed out in 2016 and 2020 (including McTurtle) and helped to get reelected. They just gave their voters, and the American people, the middle finger. One can’t help but think they’re either incredibly stupid or incredibly corrupt; probably both if we’re being honest.
Not only does this bill add anywhere from $256 to $400 billion to our roughly $30 trillion national debt, it has very little to do with anything accurately labeled “infrastructure.” Only $110 billion of the $1.2 trillion is for highways, roads, bridges and major projects. If you throw in the monies for airports, ports, and assorted other items, you might get to 23 percent of this monstrosity designated for actual infrastructure.
The other 77 percent of the bill’s funding reads like a far left wish list that paves the way for the Green New Deal. That’s why this bill should be dubbed the Gateway to the Green New Deal Bill and not infrastructure. Take for example that nearly 20 percent of the entire bill, $213 billion, is allocated for retrofitting two million homes and buildings to make them more sustainable, whatever that means. Or the $20 billion for racial equity and environmental justice. Or the mileage tax, as in yes, they want to explore taxing you for every mile you drive in your car.
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