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| Justice Edmunds |
Sabre Faires has filed a lawsuit challenging this new innovation -- called a "retention election" -- as violating our Constitution. Yesterday her lawyers filed a motion for a summary judgment in the case.
Seems like a strong argument in our opinion. Our state constitution calls for elections of Supreme Court judges, not referenda on whether we want to retain them or not. The General Assembly essentially changed the constitution without bothering to tell the rest of us.
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The centralized government implemented by the NCGOP is completely at odds with Republican "small government" ideology. Truly a huge tragedy for NC that the party in power is acting like the Soviet Politburo, and not responsible Republicans. #Pravda!
Ideology, yes, but either way it's an anti-democratic ideology. Many issues in our state constitution require a vote in Raleigh. Many others do not. Strict Construction is supposedly a Rep. commitment, but clearly they neither know nor care about the state constitution. Their ideological loyalty is first and foremost to the unhindered control by a wealthy (white) crony corporate elite, covered in a mantle of religiosity.
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