North Carolina Supreme Court

Ford focused on rising living costs and tied Lombardo to Donald Trump's economic policies, including tariffs and health care spending cuts.

North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls won re-election against Republican Sarah Stevens with roughly 59% of the vote, while Democrats also won all three Court of Appeals races.

Earle's victory preserves the Supreme Court's existing 5-2 Republican majority, but keeps Democrats positioned to contest control in 2028.

Appeals court winners John Arrowood, Toby Hampson, and Christine Walczak each received about 57%, though Republicans retained control of that court as well.

Remember we added on the fucking lawyer.

She's in the Supreme Court of North Carolina on this podcast.

Like, to finally, finally, finally, they have redistricted that state and...

To hell.

While Donald Trump won North Carolina in his three presidential bids, the state also elected Cooper as governor in two of these elections, leaving this Senate race up to the candidate that best reflects the beliefs of North Carolina voters.

The historic early voter turnout in North Carolina is also to elect 170 seats in the General Assembly, 14 U.S. House seats, N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals seats, and three constitutional amendments.

In Raleigh, ballots are electing a new mayor, city council seats, and various positions in Wake County.

Election Day falls on Tuesday, November 3rd.

Because those courts have said, this is the reason it's legislative.

There have been challenges that have gone up to the North Carolina Supreme Court and said that this is not, in fact, a legislative process.

And so there would be different due process considerations for persons that were disagreeing with an application.

And the Supreme Court of North Carolina has said it's a purely legislative decision.

But under your theory, aren't we

empowering state courts the ability to just override ARLUPA by allowing them to characterize an action as legislative and then to shield it from ARLUPA?

no and just i don't this isn't a matter of characterization this is a matter of substance the north carolina supreme court has said it's legislative not because you call it legislative but because the actual process of how the outcome is decided is legislative and so i i think i think that's a broader concern i see the appeal of that from the church's perspective i think that's not I THINK THAT CONCERN IS NOT WELL STATED.

I THINK IF THERE ARE LOCAL LEGISLATIVE DECISIONS THAT ARE BEING MADE THAT VIOLATE OUR LUPA, THE COURTS CAN STRIKE THOSE DECISIONS DOWN.

And you're going to tell me that 18 people voting isn't a big deal? We've seen statewide elections where you're talking about a handful of votes determining who wins.

You had Chief Justice Paul Newby of the North Carolina Supreme Court win by, I think it was like 240 votes back just a couple of years ago statewide.

There's seven plus million people registered to vote in North Carolina.

There was something like almost over four million votes in just that contest alone.

So walk us through this.

OK, so Anita Earls, she is a Democratic justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court, and she's defending her seat against a Republican challenger, Sarah Stevens.

And North Carolina holds partisan elections for their justices, right?

Yes.

Right.

And while they are standing there, they fill out the rest of the ballot.

Including that vital North Carolina Supreme Court race down at the bottom of the page.

Exactly.