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The North Carolina Supreme Court heard oral arguments related to voter fraud allegations made after the 2016 election. The Thursday hearing sets the stage for how partisan officials can pursue claims of voter fraud in future state elections. A group of four voters claimed in a 2017 lawsuit they were defamed by supporters of former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory after he lost to now Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper by about 10,000 votes in 2016. The lawsuit says McCrory supporters submitted election protests to local elections board falsely claiming the voters had double voted. The defendants say they h...

A lawyer for N.C. high court Associate Justice Anita Earls has filed paperwork to end her suit against the Judicial Standards Commission.

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NC Supreme Court Associate Justice Anita Earls has ended her lawsuit against an ethics commission.

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice ended her federal lawsuit against an ethics commission on Wednesday because she said the judicial panel scrutinizing her public comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her. An attorney for Associate Justice Anita Earls, one of two registered Democrats and the only Black jurist on the seven-member court, filed paperwork to end the lawsuit against the state Judicial Standards Commission and its members. The commission was investigating comments Earls made in an interview with a legal affairs news website, according...