(The Center Square) — Tort reform, school funding and a push to expand Medicaid could be among the issues South Carolina lawmakers consider when they return to Columbia on Tuesday.
North Carolina will punch above its weight in 2024 when it comes to political significance. As noted last year by U.S. News and World Report: “From the race for president down the ticket to agriculture commissioner, a uniquely competitive political environment assures the state will be one of the centers of the political universe in
Democrats are trying again to reel in their white whale of North Carolina this November after years of losses culminated in Republicans clinching a historically strong position to end 2023. The GOP dealt Democrats a body blow last year when a new legislative supermajority, secured after the defection of a liberal state lawmaker, bulldozed through Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto and passed a 12-week abortion ban, gerrymandered legislative maps and enacted other conservative bills on education and transgender rights. Now, Democrats are looking to punch back, help President Joe Biden flip the state for his reelection bid and retain the open governorship, insisting their 2023 setbacks ignited new resolve to get off the mat.