Today, Justice Michael Morgan announced that he will be stepping down from his seat on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, effective the week of September 4. This announcement.
Just hours before the N.C. Supreme Court was scheduled to reconsider a case dealing with North Carolina’s voter identification law, the full court issued an order clearing Justice Phil Berger Jr. to take part in the new oral arguments. The order dismissed a motion from voter ID critics for Berger’s recusal.
It’s likely that all seven members of North Carolina’s Supreme Court will take part in Wednesday’s rehearing of a case dealing with voter identification. Justice Tamara Barringer issued an order Monday rejecting a motion for her to recuse herself from the case. Justice Phil Berger Jr. is likely to follow suit.
The North Carolina Supreme Court met in the Historic 1767 Chowan Count Courthouse in Edenton on October 3 and 4. The beauty of the setting belied the ugly politics behind two of the cases the court heard on those days. The court had decided on a 4-3 party-line vote on July 28 to truncate the normal judicial process in Harper v. Hall, a