Watching the Legislative Black Caucus (6:05 – 7:21) last week something made my ears perk up. Rep. Marcus Brandon (D-Guilford) was introduced to talk about criminal justice issues on their agenda. Brandon began talking about a bill that had no House number, one Rep. Marilyn Avila (R-Wake) was working on, and which he said dealt [...]
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My day of Voter ID and Voting
I attended the House Elections Committee public hearing on implementing a voter ID in North Carolina. Unsurprisingly leftist groups including DemocracyNC, NAACP, and the ACLU were there in force. Comments ran 3 to 4 against voter ID at the meeting, despite the fact that depending on the poll you look at voter ID is supported by [...]
Civitas, Heritage Refute Voter ID Myths
Civitas President Francis De Luca and the Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky demolished myths about voter ID at a discussion today. BTW, here’s a good Hans von Spakovsky has a good piece on the issue here. The first speaker: Keesha Gaskins, of Brennan Center for Justice at NYU. She notes that strict photo ID laws [...]
A New Voter Photo ID Bill for 2013
Speaker of the House, Thom Tillis and State House Elections Committee Chair, Representative David Lewis, laid out the plan for a voter photo ID bill this morning. According to Representative Lewis, we should see a bill by March 25, 2013 and the vote would come sometime in April. He made it clear they do not [...]
Bad Bill of the Week: Limiting Free Speech
This week’s “winner” of the Civitas Institute’s Bad Bill of the Week targets free speech. A sample of the article: This week’s Bad Bill of the Week is actually a House Joint Resolution. HJR 171, crafted by Rep. Verla Insko (D-Orange), urges the NC General Assembly to draft a resolution opposing the U.S. Supreme Court’s [...]
