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This week in state politics: a can manufacturer finally picked North Carolina, Madison Cawthorn met more criticism following his latest incendiary comments, and a basketball game has led to mounting excitement. Donna King of the Carolina Journal and Aisha Dew from Higher Heights review some significant recent news.
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The top Republican leaders in the state legislature — House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger — also were featured guests at a lunch fundraiser Thursday for Edwards, one of seven Republicans challenging Cawthorn for the nomination in the May 17 primary.
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A candidate challenge against Madison Cawthorn has been blocked by a Trump-appointed federal judge, but questions about his qualifications to serve — and the ripple effects of his own impolitic statements — might hurt his re-election bid.
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U.S. District Judge Richard Myers declared the state's candidate challenge process didn't apply to a portion of the 14th Amendment designed to prevent congressmen who had fought on the Confederate side during the Civil War from returning to Congress, according to attorneys involved in the challenge and Cawthorn's lawsuit.
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A hearing in federal district court could keep voters from getting to challenge Madison Cawthorn's candidacy.
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In December, Cawthorn had filed to run for an open seat further east that had been created by the state legislature in November for the once-a-decade redistricting process. It was considered a more pro-GOP district than the district covering where he lives in Henderson County.
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The State Board of Elections and county election offices accepted candidate documents and fees again on Thursday morning. That came mere hours after the state Supreme Court refused appeals of those seeking to delay the use of some redistricting maps that a panel of trial judges had endorsed on Wednesday.
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The voters say Cawthorn fails to comply with the portion of a post-Civil War amendment to the Constitution pertaining to insurrections because of his involvement in the January 2021 rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot. Cawthorn says he's never engaged in an insurrection. The latest court filings say the challenge process is constitutional and doesn't harm Cawthorn.
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North Carolina's Madison Cawthorn has developed a reputation as one of the most far-right members of Congress. But now his ability to run for reelection to the U.S. House is being challenged, in part because of his actions on the day of the attack on the Capitol in 2021. But Cawthorn is fighting back.
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North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn has sued to block efforts by voters seeking to prevent him from running for Congress this year because of his involvement in the January 2021 rally that preceded the U.S. Capitol riot.