NC Supreme Court

A North Carolina Supreme Court justice has ended her lawsuit against an ethics commission because she says the judicial panel scrutinizing her comments about the courts, colleagues and race has dismissed a complaint against her.

An investigation of state Supreme Court justice Anita Earls will continue after a judge declined this week to block the probe.

Gov. Roy Cooper has appointed Court of Appeals Judge Allison Riggs to fill a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, where she'll be the youngest woman to serve as a justice.

State Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls is suing a judicial oversight board that’s investigating her.

Morgan is one of two remaining Democrats on the court.

Friday's opinions come less than four months since a new Republican majority on the court took their seats. The court swept away decisions made in December when the Democrats held a 4-3 seat advantage.

Increased punishments for rioting in North Carolina will become law later this year as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Friday he wouldn’t use his veto stamp on legislation that’s similar to a bill he successfully blocked in 2021.

Republicans got rehearings in two election-related cases they lost last year at the then-Democrat-majority high court.

The North Carolina Supreme Court is revisiting this week whether a previous combination of justices got it wrong three months ago when declaring that the legislature produced illegal district lines tainted by excess partisanship and a photo voter identification law infected with racial bias.

North Carolina Republican legislative leaders can defend in federal court the state restrictions on dispensing abortion pills that are being challenged by a physician, a judge has ruled.