WaPo: “Kate Barr is a blur of activity on the campaign trail this fall. She’s a fixture at local Democratic events, delivering fiery stump speeches. In her neighborhood here in the North Carolina Piedmont, many lawns display her Barbie-pink yard signs. She has branded T-shirts and sweatshirts and glittery stickers. Wherever she appears, her opening…

the Assembly: “On the morning of Sept. 3, 1991, as workers returned from the Labor Day holiday, a huge grease fire tore through a chicken-processing plant in remote Hamlet, N.C., near the South Carolina line. Employees rushed through the chaos to escape but were blocked by locked exit doors. Twenty-five people died. That day, the…

HuffPo: “A judge in Georgia struck down the state’s six-week abortion ban on Monday afternoon. The Fulton county judge, Robert McBurney, ruled the abortion ban unconstitutional under Georgia’s state constitution and suggested that the six-week abortion ban treated women like “collectively owned community property.” “A review of our higher courts’ interpretations of ‘liberty’ demonstrates that…

WaPo: “Hurricane Helene’s destructive path across western North Carolina threatens to upend the fall election in the key battleground, with halted mail service disrupting absentee voting, thousands of voters cut off from polling locations and election administrators scrambling to adjust. Even as emergency response teams continued their search for survivors of the devastating storm and…

Clarion Ledger: “Rumors that the Democratic National Convention would have Beyoncé as a special guest ricocheted through the media last month. Alas, despite her song “Freedom” being the official Harris-Walz theme song, Beyoncé did not make an appearance at the DNC. Was it a mistake that, because of the pop icon rocket fuel driving it,…

As Mark Robinson’s Campaign Crumbles, North Carolina Republicans Seethe “Six weeks before Election Day, the Republican Party in North Carolina is in an extraordinary standoff with its own nominee for governor. After a CNN report last week linked the candidate, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, to offensive comments on a porn website, donations to his campaign have dried…

Elon News Network: “In a state where former President Donald Trump won by less than 75,000 votes in 2020, both parties are looking to win over North Carolina through the fastest-growing population in the state — the Hispanic community.  From 2010 to 2020, the Latino population in North Carolina grew by almost 40%, far more than the…

WaPo: “A panel of federal judges heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could upend the rules for counting a sliver of mail ballots in Mississippi just weeks before Election Day, with possible ramifications for all states. At issue is a Mississippi law that allows mail ballots to be counted if they arrive up to…

Lawfare: “The changes have ignited breathless media coverage over the past several weeks, as commentators forecast how former President Donald Trump and his allies could delay certification in another attempt to reject an unfavorable presidential election outcome. Over at the Bulwark, A.B. Stoddard sums up Trump’s supposed legal strategy for Stop the Steal 2.0 as follows: “Refuse…

Rolling Stone: “At least 210 women faced criminal charges related to pregnancy, abortion, pregnancy loss, or birth in the year after the Supreme Court ended the federal right to abortion, according to a new report from the advocacy group Pregnancy Justice. In most of the cases — 121 of the 210 — the information later used against the women was obtained or disclosed…