North Carolina Supreme Court

The court's Democratic justices composed the majority. Those justices upheld the House plan drawn by the General Assembly and a congressional map that the same trial judge panel drew up. All three of these maps were used to conduct last month's elections.

Two seats were up for grabs this year, and Republicans won both.

A review of campaign finance reports with the State Board of Elections shows the four general election candidates seeking two positions and affluent political action committees have spent at least $15 million combined.

Registered Democrats hold a 4-3 advantage on the court, but Republicans would retake the majority with at least one win. The next edition of the Supreme Court could consider a host of divisive issues, including abortion, especially if Republican lawmakers gain veto-proof majorities in Raleigh so that Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper can't easily stop laws.

On North Carolina’s horizon is a consequential midterm, which is headlined by an open U.S. Senate seat, and underscored in-part by races that will determine party control of the state Supreme Court.

The landmark Leandro case is headed to the North Carolina Supreme Court for the fourth time in its 28 year history. Advocates rallied at the statehouse Saturday to call for the state to spend $6.8 billion to improve public education.

A decades-old education case lands before the North Carolina Supreme Court on Wednesday. We're aiming to to tell you everything you need to know about the Leandro case.

North Carolina’s highest court opened the door Friday to nullifying a voter ID mandate approved by citizens in 2018 because the lawmakers who put it on the ballot were elected from districts tainted by illegal racial bias.

Justices held oral arguments Monday examining a lawsuit that alleges the legislature was barred from placing constitutional amendments on the ballot because lawmakers who agreed to do so were elected with the help of distorted district boundaries.

The 4-3 ruling marks the first time in state history, according to legal authorities, that a criminal conviction was invalidated because of a prosecutor's unlawful exclusion of a Black juror through a process developed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1986.