North Carolina has a proud 30-year history of almost continuous litigation over legislative and congressional redistricting, described here. The lawsuits for our new decade have started and previous roles have been reversed. Republicans used to complain about maps drawn by Democrats. Now Democrats are objecting to Republican plans. The Democrats and other plaintiffs in their […]
Posts Tagged ‘North Carolina Constitution’
Self-Executing Constitutional Provisions
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011This session, legislators have introduced bills (House Bill 87, Senate Bill 67) proposing to amend the North Carolina Constitution to create a right of access to public records, and to require that all meetings of public bodies be open. The law preserves existing provisions of law dealing with these subjects, and creates additional requirements for future […]
A Look at North Carolina’s Constitutional Public Purpose Requirement
Thursday, January 7th, 2010In a post describing the recently enacted legislation that (potentially) authorizes North Carolina local governments to establish revolving loan funds or impose special assessments in order to finance energy efficiency improvements and distributed generation renewable energy sources permanently affixed to private property, I indicated that one (of many) complicating factors is determining whether or not such […]