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Recent decisions by the Colorado, Wisconsin, and North Carolina Supreme Courts drive home the importance of state supreme court control when it comes to setting policy.

New NC Supreme Court's impact will extend beyond what we can see

The new N.C. Supreme Court could have its greatest impact by discouraging politically motivated lawsuits.

RALEIGH - Two weeks before they’re set to lose their majority, N.C. Supreme Court Democrats issued rulings striking down the state’s photo voter identification law and the election map used

Two weeks before they’re set to lose their majority, N.C. Supreme Court Democrats issued rulings Friday striking down the state’s photo voter identification law and the election map used for state Senate races. Both rulings featured party-line 4-3 splits, with the court’s four Democrats outvoting their three Republican colleagues.

The N.C. Supreme Court is ordering state government officials to transfer what is likely to be hundreds of millions of dollars out of the state’s treasury to fund a court-ordered education plan. In a 4-3 party-line vote, the court’s Democratic justices overruled Republican colleagues and rejected Republican lawmakers’ arguments in the long-running Leandro case. GOP lawmakers had argued that a forced money transfer would violate the state constitution’s separation of powers.